Surah An-Nazi'at: Those Yearning

Revealed at Makkah


79:21
But he belied and disobeyed.


79:22
Then he turned away striving;


79:23
and he assembled, and called out;


79:24
then he said: “I am your lord, the most high.”


79:25
So Allah seized him with an example of the Hereafter and of the former.


79:26
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;


79:29
and He has darkened its night, and brought out its sunshine.


79:30
And the earth,— He spread it after that.


79:31
He brought forth from it its water, and its pasture.


79:32
And the mountains,— He set them firm,


79:33
a provision for you and for your cattle.


79:34
Then when the great calamity comes,


79:35
on that day man will remember what he strove for,


79:36
and hell will be made manifest to him who sees.


79:37
Then as to him who transgresses,


79:38
and prefers the life of this world,


79:39
then surely the Hell— that is his abode.


79:40
But as to him who fears to stand before his Rabb, and restrains himself from evil desires,