Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (2005)

1 I swear by the Day of Resurrection!
2 And I swear by the self-blaming soul!
3 Does man suppose
that We shall not put together his bones?
4 Yes indeed,
We are able to proportion [even] his fingertips!
5 Rather man desires to go on living viciously.
6 He asks, ‘When is this day of resurrection?!’
7 But when the eyes are dazzled,
8 and the moon is eclipsed,
9 and the sun and the moon are brought together,
10 that day man will say,
‘Where is the escape?’
11 No indeed! There is no refuge!
12 That day the abode will be toward your Lord.
13 That day man will be informed
about what he has sent ahead and left behind.
14 Rather man is a witness to himself,
15 though he should offer his excuses.
16 Do not move your tongue with it to hasten it.
17 Indeed it is up to Us to put it together
and to recite it.
18 And when We have recited it, follow its recitation.
19 Then, its exposition indeed [also] lies with Us.
20 No Indeed! Rather you love this transitory life
21 and forsake the Hereafter.
22 Some faces will be fresh on that day,
23 looking at their Lord,
24 and some faces will be scowling on that day,
25 knowing that they will be dealt out

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Ali Quli Qarai, The Qur’ān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation, Islamic College for Advance Studies Press (ICAS), London (Distributed by The Centre for Translation of the Holy Qur’ān, Qom, Iran), Consulted online at “Quran Archive - Texts and Studies on the Quran” on 28 Mar. 2024: http://quran-archive.org/explorer/ali-quli-qarai/2005?page=856