AN NAAZI'AAT (MALAIKAT-MALAIKAT YANG MENCABUT)

فَكَذَّبَ وَعَصَى

But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.

ثُمَّ أَدْبَرَ يَسْعَى

Then he turned his back, striving.

فَحَشَرَ فَنَادَى

And he gathered [his people] and called out

فَقَالَ أَنَا رَبُّكُمُ الْأَعْلَى

And said, "I am your most exalted lord."

فَأَخَذَهُ اللَّهُ نَكَالَ الْآخِرَةِ وَالْأُولَى

So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression].

إِنَّ فِي ذَلِكَ لَعِبْرَةً لِّمَن يَخْشَى

Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [ Allah ].

أَأَنتُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَمِ السَّمَاء بَنَاهَا

Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.

رَفَعَ سَمْكَهَا فَسَوَّاهَا

He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.

وَأَغْطَشَ لَيْلَهَا وَأَخْرَجَ ضُحَاهَا

And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.

وَالْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ دَحَاهَا

And after that He spread the earth.

أَخْرَجَ مِنْهَا مَاءهَا وَمَرْعَاهَا

He extracted from it its water and its pasture,

وَالْجِبَالَ أَرْسَاهَا

And the mountains He set firmly

مَتَاعًا لَّكُمْ وَلِأَنْعَامِكُمْ

As provision for you and your grazing livestock.

فَإِذَا جَاءتِ الطَّامَّةُ الْكُبْرَى

But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -

يَوْمَ يَتَذَكَّرُ الْإِنسَانُ مَا سَعَى

The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,

وَبُرِّزَتِ الْجَحِيمُ لِمَن يَرَى

And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -

فَأَمَّا مَن طَغَى

So as for he who transgressed

وَآثَرَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا

And preferred the life of the world,

فَإِنَّ الْجَحِيمَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَى

Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.

وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ وَنَهَى النَّفْسَ عَنِ الْهَوَى

But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,