Surah 79
Surah An-Nazi'at: Those Yearning
Revealed at Makkah
79:21
But he belied and disobeyed.
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Then he turned away striving;
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and he assembled, and called out;
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then he said: “I am your lord, the most high.”
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So Allah seized him with an example of the Hereafter and of the former.
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Surely in this there is a lesson for him who fears.
79:27
Are you stronger in creation, or the heaven? He has created it.
79:28
He has raised its height, and He made it perfect;
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and He has darkened its night, and brought out its sunshine.
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And the earth,— He spread it after that.
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He brought forth from it its water, and its pasture.
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And the mountains,— He set them firm,
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a provision for you and for your cattle.
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Then when the great calamity comes,
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on that day man will remember what he strove for,
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and hell will be made manifest to him who sees.
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Then as to him who transgresses,
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and prefers the life of this world,
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then surely the Hell— that is his abode.
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But as to him who fears to stand before his Rabb, and restrains himself from evil desires,