Surah An-Naazi'aat

فَكَذَّبَوَعَصَىٰ

But [Pharaoh] gave him the lie and rebelliously rejected [all guidance],

ثُمَّأَدْبَرَيَسْعَىٰ

and brusquely turned his back [on Moses];

فَحَشَرَفَنَادَىٰ

and then he gathered [his great ones], and called [unto his people],

فَقَالَأَنَا۠رَبُّكُمُٱلْأَعْلَىٰ

and said, "I am your Lord All-Highest!"

فَأَخَذَهُٱللَّهُنَكَالَٱلْءَاخِرَةِوَٱلْأُولَىٰٓ

And thereupon God took him to task, [and made him] a warning example in the life to come as well as in this world.

إِنَّفِىذَٰلِكَلَعِبْرَةًۭلِّمَنيَخْشَىٰٓ

In this, behold, there is a lesson indeed for all who stand in awe [of God].

ءَأَنتُمْأَشَدُّخَلْقًاأَمِٱلسَّمَآءُبَنَىٰهَا

[O MEN!] Are you more difficult to create than the heaven which He has built?

رَفَعَسَمْكَهَافَسَوَّىٰهَا

High has He reared its vault and formed it in accordance with what it was meant to be;

وَأَغْطَشَلَيْلَهَاوَأَخْرَجَضُحَىٰهَا

and He has made dark its night and brought forth its light of day.

وَٱلْأَرْضَبَعْدَذَٰلِكَدَحَىٰهَآ

And after that, the earth: wide has He spread its expanse,

أَخْرَجَمِنْهَامَآءَهَاوَمَرْعَىٰهَا

and has caused its waters to come out of it, and its pastures,

وَٱلْجِبَالَأَرْسَىٰهَا

and has made the mountains firm:

مَتَٰعًۭالَّكُمْوَلِأَنْعَٰمِكُمْ

[all this] as a means of livelihood for you and your animals.

فَإِذَاجَآءَتِٱلطَّآمَّةُٱلْكُبْرَىٰ

AND SO, when the great overwhelming event [of, resurrection] comes to pass –

يَوْمَيَتَذَكَّرُٱلْإِنسَٰنُمَاسَعَىٰ

on that Day man will [clearly] remember all that he has ever wrought;

وَبُرِّزَتِٱلْجَحِيمُلِمَنيَرَىٰ

and the blazing fire [of hell] will be lad open before all who [are destined to] see it.

فَأَمَّامَنطَغَىٰ

For, unto him who shall have transgressed the bounds of what is right,

وَءَاثَرَٱلْحَيَوٰةَٱلدُّنْيَا

and preferred the life of this world [to the good of his soul],

فَإِنَّٱلْجَحِيمَهِىَٱلْمَأْوَىٰ

that blazing fire will truly be the goal!

وَأَمَّامَنْخَافَمَقَامَرَبِّهِۦوَنَهَىٱلنَّفْسَعَنِٱلْهَوَىٰ

But unto him who shall have stood in fear of his Sustainer's Presence, and held back his inner self from base desires,