The Snatchers (Al-Naze'aat)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By those (angels) that pluck out the soul from depths, 1 By those (angels) who gently take out (the souls of the believers); 2 by the angels who float (in the heavens by the will of God), 3 And those who race each other in a race 4 Then those who regulate the affair. 5 [HENCE, think of] the Day when a violent convulsion will convulse [the world,] 6 Followed by the second blast, 7 On that Day will [men's] hearts be throbbing, 8 Their eyes humbled. 9 They shall say, 'What, are we being restored as we were before? 10 after we have become bones and dust?" 11 They said, “So this return is an obvious loss!” 12 But it shall be only a single cry, 13 So they will immediately be in an open plain. 14 Have you received the story of Moses? 15 When his Lord called to him in the holy valley, Towa: 16 "Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed. 17 and say: "Will you purify yourself, 18 And that I guide you to your Lord, so you should fear Him? 19 Then he shewed him the great sign. 20 Yet he belied and disobeyed. 21 Then he turned back striving. 22 and gathered his people and declared: 23 And he said: I am your Lord, most high. 24 So God seized him with the chastisement of the Last World and the First. 25 Verily herein is lesson for him who feareth. 26