Chapter 79: Surah An Naziat (Those Who pull out) - Sheikh Salih Talib

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
79:1 I swear by the angels who violently pull out the souls of the wicked,
79:2 And by those who gently draw out the souls of the blessed,
79:3 And by those who float in space,
79:4 Then those who are foremost going ahead,
79:5 Then those who regulate the affair.
79:6 The day on which the quaking one shall quake,
79:7 What must happen afterwards shall follow it.
79:8 Hearts on that day shall palpitate,
79:9 Their eyes cast down.
79:10 They say: Shall we indeed be restored to (our) first state?
79:11 What! when we are rotten bones?
79:12 They said: That then would be a return occasioning loss.
79:13 But it shall be only a single cry,
79:14 When lo! they shall be wakeful.
79:15 Has not there come to you the story of Musa?
79:16 When his Lord called upon him in the holy valley, twice,
79:17 Go to Firon, surely he has become inordinate.
79:18 Then say: Have you (a desire) to purify yourself:
79:19 And I will guide you to your Lord so that you should fear.
79:20 So he showed him the mighty sign.
79:21 But he rejected (the truth) and disobeyed.
79:22 Then he went back hastily.
79:23 Then he gathered (men) and called out.
79:24 Then he said: I am your lord, the most high.
79:25 So Allah seized him with the punishment of the hereafter and the former life.
79:26 Most surely there is in this a lesson to him who fears.
79:27 Are you the harder to create or the heaven? He made it.
79:28 He raised high its height, then put it into a right good state.
79:29 And He made dark its night and brought out its light.
79:30 And the earth, He expanded it after that.
79:31 He brought forth from it its water and its pasturage.
79:32 And the mountains, He made them firm,
79:33 A provision for you and for your cattle.
79:34 But when the great predominating calamity comes;
79:35 The day on which man shall recollect what he strove after,
79:36 And the hell shall be made manifest to him who sees
79:37 Then as for him who is inordinate,
79:38 And prefers the life of this world,
79:39 Then surely the hell, that is the abode.
79:40 And as for him who fears to stand in the presence of his Lord and forbids the soul from low desires,
79:41 Then surely the garden-- that is the abode.
79:42 They ask you about the hour, when it will come.
79:43 About what! You are one to remind of it.
79:44 To your Lord is the goal of it.
79:45 You are only a warner to him who would fear it.
79:46 On the day that they see it, it will be as though they had not tarried but the latter part of a day or the early part of it.

Chapter 74: Surah Al Muddaththir (The One Enveloped) - Sheikh Salih Talib

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
74:1 O you who are clothed!
74:2 Arise and warn,
74:3 And your Lord do magnify,
74:4 And your garments do purify,
74:5 And uncleanness do shun,
74:6 And bestow not favors that you may receive again with increase,
74:7 And for the sake of your Lord, be patient.
74:8 For when the trumpet is sounded,
74:9 That, at that time, shall be a difficult day,
74:10 For the unbelievers, anything but easy.
74:11 Leave Me and him whom I created alone,
74:12 And give him vast riches,
74:13 And sons dwelling in his presence,
74:14 And I adjusted affairs for him adjustably;
74:15 And yet he desires that I should add more!
74:16 By no means! surely he offers opposition to Our communications.
74:17 I will make a distressing punishment overtake him.
74:18 Surely he reflected and guessed,
74:19 But may he be cursed how he plotted;
74:20 Again, may he be cursed how he plotted;
74:21 Then he looked,
74:22 Then he frowned and scowled,
74:23 Then he turned back and was big with pride,
74:24 ~Then he said: This is naught but enchantment, narrated (from others);
74:25 This is naught but the word of a mortal.
74:26 I will cast him into hell.
74:27 And what will make you realize what hell is?
74:28 It leaves naught nor does it spare aught.
74:29 It scorches the mortal.
74:30 Over it are nineteen.
74:31 And We have not made the wardens of the fire others than angels, and We have not made their number but as a trial for those who disbelieve, that those who have been given the book may be certain and those who believe may increase in faith, and those who have been given the book and the believers may not doubt, and that those in whose hearts is a disease and the unbelievers may say: What does Allah mean by this parable? Thus does Allah make err whom He pleases, and He guides whom He pleases, and none knows the hosts of your Lord but He Himself; and this is naught but a reminder to the mortals.
74:32 Nay; I swear by the moon,
74:33 And the night when it departs,
74:34 And the daybreak when it shines;
74:35 Surely it (hell) is one of the gravest (misfortunes),
74:36 A warning to mortals,
74:37 To him among you who wishes to go forward or remain behind.
74:38 Every soul is held in pledge for what it earns,
74:39 Except the people of the right hand,
74:40 In gardens, they shall ask each other
74:41 About the guilty:
74:42 What has brought you into hell?
74:43 They shall say: We were not of those who prayed;
74:44 And we used not to feed the poor;
74:45 And we used to enter into vain discourse with those who entered into vain discourses.
74:46 And we used to call the day of judgment a lie;
74:47 Till death overtook us.
74:48 So the intercession of intercessors shall not avail them.
74:49 What is then the matter with them, that they turn away from the admonition
74:50 As if they were asses taking fright
74:51 That had fled from a lion?
74:52 Nay; every one of them desires that he may be given pages spread out;
74:53 Nay! but they do not fear the hereafter.
74:54 Nay! it is surely an admonition.
74:55 So whoever pleases may mind it.
74:56 And they will not mind unless Allah please. He is worthy to be feared and worthy to forgive.