By the angels who tear forth the souls of some with violence
and by those who draw forth the souls of others with gentleness
by those who glide swimmingly through the air with the commands of God
and those who precede and usher the righteous to paradise
and those who subordinately govern the affairs of this world
On a certain day, the disturbing blast of the trumpet shall disturb the universe
and the subsequent blast shall follow it
On that day men's hearts shall tremble
Their looks shall be cast down
The infidels say, shall we surely be made to return whence we came
After we shall have become rotten bones, shall we be again raised to life
They say, this then will be a return to loss
Verily it will be but one sounding of the trumpet
and behold, they shall appear alive on the face of the earth
Hath not the story of Moses reached thee
When his Lord called unto him in the holy valley Towa, saying
go unto Pharaoh; for he is insolently wicked
and say, hast thou a desire to become just and holy
And I will direct thee unto thy Lord, that thou mayest fear to transgress
And he shewed him the very great sign of the rod turned into a serpent
But he charged Moses with imposture, and rebelled against God
Then he turned back hastily
and he assembled the magicians, and cried aloud, saying
I am your supreme Lord
Wherefore God chastised him with the punishment of the life to come, and also of this present life
Verily herein is an example unto him who feareth to rebel
Are ye more difficult to create, or the heaven which God hath built
He hath raised the height thereof, and hath perfectly formed the same
And He hath made the night thereof dark, and hath produced the light thereof
After this, He stretched out the earth
whence He caused to spring forth the water thereof, and the pasture thereof
and He established the mountains
for the use of yourselves, and of your cattle
When the prevailing, the great day shall come
on that day shall a man call to remembrance what he hath purposely done
And hell shall be exposed to the view of the spectator
And whoso shall have transgressed
and shall have chosen this present life
verily hell shall be his abode
But whoso shall have dreaded the appearing before his Lord, and shall have refrained his soul from lust
verily paradise shall be his abode
They will ask thee concerning the last hour, when will be the fixed time thereof
By what means canst thou give any information of the same
Unto thy Lord belongeth the knowledge of the period thereof
And thou art only a warner, who fearest the same
The day whereon they shall see the same, it shall seem to them as though they had not tarried in the world longer than an evening, or a morning thereof