Surah Al-Mursalaat

وَٱلْمُرْسَلَٰتِعُرْفًۭا

CONSIDER these [messages,] sent forth in waves

فَٱلْعَٰصِفَٰتِعَصْفًۭا

and then storming on with a tempest's force!

وَٱلنَّٰشِرَٰتِنَشْرًۭا

Consider these [messages] that spread [the truth] far and wide,

فَٱلْفَٰرِقَٰتِفَرْقًۭا

thus separating [right and wrong] with all clarity,

فَٱلْمُلْقِيَٰتِذِكْرًا

and then giving forth a reminder,

عُذْرًاأَوْنُذْرًا

[promising] freedom from blame or [offering] a warning!

إِنَّمَاتُوعَدُونَلَوَٰقِعٌۭ

BEHOLD, all that you are told to expect will surely come to pass.

فَإِذَاٱلنُّجُومُطُمِسَتْ

Thus, [it will come to pass] when the stars are effaced,

وَإِذَاٱلسَّمَآءُفُرِجَتْ

and when the sky is rent asunder,

وَإِذَاٱلْجِبَالُنُسِفَتْ

and when the mountains are scattered like dust,

وَإِذَاٱلرُّسُلُأُقِّتَتْ

and when all the apostles are called together at a time appointed...

لِأَىِّيَوْمٍأُجِّلَتْ

For what day has the term [of all this] been set?

لِيَوْمِٱلْفَصْلِ

For the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false]!

وَمَآأَدْرَىٰكَمَايَوْمُٱلْفَصْلِ

And what could make thee conceive what that Day of Distinction will be?

وَيْلٌۭيَوْمَئِذٍۢلِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

Woe on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth!

أَلَمْنُهْلِكِٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

Did We not destroy [so many of] those [sinners] of olden days?

ثُمَّنُتْبِعُهُمُٱلْءَاخِرِينَ

And We shall let them be followed by those of later times:

كَذَٰلِكَنَفْعَلُبِٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ

[for] thus do We deal with such as are lost in sin.

وَيْلٌۭيَوْمَئِذٍۢلِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ

Woe on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth!

أَلَمْنَخْلُقكُّممِّنمَّآءٍۢمَّهِينٍۢ

Did We not create you out of a humble fluid