لَا أُقْسِمُ بِيَوْمِ الْقِيَامَةِ NAY! I call to witness the Day of Resurrection! (1) وَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِالنَّفْسِ اللَّوَّامَةِ But nay! I call to witness the accusing voice of man's own conscience! (2) أَيَحْسَبُ الْإِنْسَانُ أَلَّنْ نَجْمَعَ عِظَامَهُ Does man think that We cannot [resurrect him and] bring his bones together again? (3) بَلَىٰ قَادِرِينَ عَلَىٰ أَنْ نُسَوِّيَ بَنَانَهُ Yea indeed, We are able to make whole his very finger-tips! (4) بَلْ يُرِيدُ الْإِنْسَانُ لِيَفْجُرَ أَمَامَهُ None the less, man chooses to deny what lies ahead of him, (5) يَسْأَلُ أَيَّانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ asking [derisively], "When is that Resurrection Day to be?" (6) فَإِذَا بَرِقَ الْبَصَرُ But [on that Day,] when the eyesight is by fear confounded, (7) وَخَسَفَ الْقَمَرُ and the moon is darkened, (8) وَجُمِعَ الشَّمْسُ وَالْقَمَرُ and the sun and the moon are brought together – (9) يَقُولُ الْإِنْسَانُ يَوْمَئِذٍ أَيْنَ الْمَفَرُّ on that Day will man exclaim, "Whither to flee?" (10) |
Abdullah Yusuf Ali I do call to witness5809 the Resurrection Day; (Translation) 5809. Cf. 70:40, and n. 5700. Here the point to be enforced is understood: I have added it in brackets; "eschew Evil". The appeal is made to two considerations: (1) That every act has to be accounted for, and evil must have its recompense at the Resurrection; and (2) that man's own spirit has a conscience which would reproach him of sin, if he did not suppress that inner voice. Buy this commentary from Amazon  .Other Translations of Verse : • I do call to witness the Resurrection Day; (Abdullah Yusuf Ali) • Nay, I swear by the Day of Resurrection; (Mohamed Marmaduke Pickthall) • Nay! I swear by the day of resurrection. (M. H. Shakir) • I swear by the Day of Resurrection; (Taqiuddin Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan) • I swear by the Day of Resurrection. (Abdul-Majid Daryabadi) • No! I swear by the Day of Resurrection, (Hassan Qaribullah and Ahmed Darwish) • No! I swear by the Day of Resurrection! (Muhammad Ayub Khan) • Nay, I swear by the Day of Resurrection. (Sher Ali) • NAY! I call to witness the Day of Resurrection! (Muhammad Asad) • No! I swear by the Day of Resurrection. (Arthur John Arberry) |