| This Surah (Revealed) Meccan, consisting of 46 verses.(An-Nâziâât)
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| بِسْم ِ اللهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ | |
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By those that wrest, [by] the angels who wrest the souls of disbelievers,
violently;
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by those that draw out, [by] the angels who draw out the souls of believers,
gently;
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by those that glide serenely, [by] the angels who descend from the heavens with
His command, exalted be He;
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by those that race forward, [by] the angels who race forward to Paradise with
the souls of believers;
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and by those that direct the affair, [by] the angels who direct the affairs of
this world, that is to say, they descend with the directions for it [from God] (the response to all of these oath
clauses has been omitted, understood to be [something like], la-tubâathunna yā kuffāra Makka, âyou shall
certainly be resurrected, O disbelievers of Mecca!â, which is also the operator of [the following clause]):
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the day when the Tremor quakes, that is to say, the first blast, as a result of
which everything will be shaken violently (thus it [the subject] has been described in terms of the effect it
produces),
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and is followed by the Aftershock, the second blast; between the two [blasts] is
a span of forty years (the sentence [tatbaâuhāâl-rādifatu] is a circumstantial qualifier referring to
al-rājifa, âthe Tremorâ, in other words, the âdayâ can [adverbially] accommodate both blasts and other events, and so for
this reason it can also properly function as the adverbial qualifier for the Resurrection that will take
place after the second [blast]);
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on that day hearts will be trembling, frightened and anxious,
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their eyes humbled, abject, because of the terror that they see.
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They, those of the [mentioned] hearts and eyes, will say, mockingly and in
rejection of the Resurrection: âAre we indeed (read a-innā pronouncing both hamzas, or by not pronouncing the
second, and inserting an alif between them in both cases, and in both instances) being restored as
before? Shall we be restored to 721 life after death (al-hāfira is a noun signifying the âfirst partâ of anything,
from which is derived the expression rajaâa fī hāfiratihi to mean that so and so âreturned whence he had comeâ).
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What! When we have been decayed bones?â (nakhira: a variant reading has nākhira,
âdecayed and witheredâ), will we have life again?
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They will say, âThat, return of ours to life, then, if it were true, would be a
ruinous return!â.
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God, exalted be He, says: But it, the Aftershock, which will be followed by the
Resurrection, will be only a single blast, and so when it is blasted:
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behold, then, they, all creatures, will be upon the surface of the earth, alive,
after having been dead inside it.
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Have you, O Muhammad (s), received the story of Moses (hadīthu Mūsā operates
[the clause that follows]),
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when his Lord called out to him in the holy valley of Tuwā? â this is the name
of the valley (it may be read with nunation, Tuwan, or without) â and He said:
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âGo to Pharaoh; he has indeed become rebellious, he has exceeded [all] bounds
with his disbelief,
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and say, âWould you â I call you [to] â purify yourself (tazakkā: a variant
reading has tazzakkā, where the original second tāâ [of tatazakkā] has been assimilated with the zāy), to purge
yourself of idolatry, by bearing witness that there is no god but God,
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and allow me to guide you to your Lord, to show you how to know Him (maârifa) by
way of proofs, so that you may have fear [of Him]?â â
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So he showed him the greatest sign, from among His nine signs, namely, the
[glowing] hand or the [slithering] staff.
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But he, Pharaoh, denied, Moses, and disobeyed, God, exalted be He.
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722 Then he turned his back, to faith, going about in haste, throughout the land
causing corruption.
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Then he gathered, he assembled the sorcerers and his armies, and proclaimed,
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and said, âI am your most high lord!â, above whom is no other lord.
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So God seized him, He destroyed him by drowning him, as punishment for the
latter, that is to say, these [last] words [of his], and for the former, that is to say, his saying
previously, âI do not know of any god for you other than meâ [Q. 28:38] â and between the two [claims made by Pharaoh] was
an interval of forty years.
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Assuredly in that, which is mentioned, there is a moral for him who fears, God,
exalted be He.
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Are you (read a-antum pronouncing both hamzas, or by substituting an alif for
the second one, not pronouncing it and inserting an alif between the one not pronounced and the
former, or without [this insertion]), namely, [you] the deniers of the Resurrection, harder to create or
the heaven which He has built?, harder to create (banāhā: an explication of the manner of [its]
creation).
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He made it rise high â an explication of the manner of [its] construction; in
other words, He made its vertical extension high; it is also said that samkahā means âits ceilingâ â and
levelled it: He made it even, flawless,
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