The Snatchers (Al-Naze'aat)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
By those [angels] who extract with violence 1 By the meteors rushing, 2 and by those that speedily glide along (the cosmos), 3 and those that outstrip suddenly 4 Then those who regulate the affair. 5 A Day shall come whereon the quaking will quake, 6 to be followed by further [convulsions]! 7 On that day hearts beat painfully 8 Unable to lift their gaze. 9 They shall say, 'What, are we being restored as we were before? 10 What! when we are rotten bones? 11 They said: That then would be a return occasioning loss. 12 Indeed, it will be but one shout, 13 and lo, they will all be in the open plain. 14 Did the news of Moosa reach you? 15 His Lord called to him in the Sacred Valley of Towa, 16 Go to Firon, surely he has become inordinate. 17 “Tell him ‘Do you have the inclination to become pure?’ 18 and that I should guide thee to thy Lord, then thou shalt fear?"' 19 Moses showed him the great sign, 20 but he belied and disobeyed, 21 Then he turned his back, striving. 22 and gathered his people and declared: 23 Saying: "I am your lord, most high", 24 Allah therefore seized him, in the punishment of this world and the Hereafter. 25 In this, behold, there is a lesson indeed for all who stand in awe [of God]. 26