The Snatchers (Al-Naze'aat)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
By those (angels) that pluck out the soul from depths, 1 And who softly release the soul. (Of the believer) 2 and by those that speedily glide along (the cosmos), 3 and the outstrippers (angels), outstripping, 4 And those who govern the event, 5 The day on which the quaking one shall quake, 6 to be followed by further [convulsions]! 7 hearts will undergo terrible trembling, 8 and their eyes shall be downcast with dread. 9 The disbelievers say, “Will we really return to our former state?” 10 Even if we should be decayed bones? 11 They will say: 'Then we are returned lost' 12 But all it will take is a single blast, 13 And they will wake up suddenly. 14 Hast thou received the story of Moses? 15 When his Lord called to him in Tuwa's holy vale? 16 "Go to the Pharaoh who has become refractory, 17 and say [unto him,] 'Art thou desirous of attaining to purity? 18 Then I will guide thee to thy Lord and thou shalt fear (Him). 19 So he showed him the mighty sign. 20 But he rejected (the truth) and disobeyed. 21 and then he turned back to have recourse to his craftiness, 22 And assembled (his council) and proclaimed, 23 Saying: "I am alone your lord, the highest of them all." 24 but God seized him and meted out to him the chastisement of both the next world and the present: 25 In this, behold, there is a lesson indeed for all who stand in awe [of God]. 26