وَالصَّافَّاتِ صَفًّا ١

By the rangers ranging

فَالزَّاجِرَاتِ زَجْرًا ٢

and the scarers scaring

فَالتَّالِيَاتِ ذِكْرًا ٣

and the reciters of a Remembrance,

إِنَّ إِلَٰهَكُمْ لَوَاحِدٌ ٤

surely your God is One,

رَّبُّ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَمَا بَيْنَهُمَا وَرَبُّ الْمَشَارِقِ ٥

Lord of the heavens and the earth, and of what between them is Lord of the Easts.

إِنَّا زَيَّنَّا السَّمَاءَ الدُّنْيَا بِزِينَةٍ الْكَوَاكِبِ ٦

We have adorned the lower heaven with the adornment of the stars

وَحِفْظًا مِّن كُلِّ شَيْطَانٍ مَّارِدٍ ٧

and to preserve against every rebel Satan;

لَّا يَسَّمَّعُونَ إِلَى الْمَلَإِ الْأَعْلَىٰ وَيُقْذَفُونَ مِن كُلِّ جَانِبٍ ٨

they listen not to the High Council, for they are pelted from every side,

دُحُورًا ۖ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ وَاصِبٌ ٩

rejected, and theirs is an everlasting chastisement,

إِلَّا مَنْ خَطِفَ الْخَطْفَةَ فَأَتْبَعَهُ شِهَابٌ ثَاقِبٌ ١٠

except such as snatches a fragment, and he is pursued by a piercing flame.

فَاسْتَفْتِهِمْ أَهُمْ أَشَدُّ خَلْقًا أَم مَّنْ خَلَقْنَا ۚ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاهُم مِّن طِينٍ لَّازِبٍ ١١

So ask them for a pronouncement -- Are they stronger in constitution, or those We created? We created them of clinging clay.

بَلْ عَجِبْتَ وَيَسْخَرُونَ ١٢

Nay, thou marvellest; and they scoff

وَإِذَا ذُكِّرُوا لَا يَذْكُرُونَ ١٣

and, when reminded, do not remember

وَإِذَا رَأَوْا آيَةً يَسْتَسْخِرُونَ ١٤

and, when they see a sign, would scoff;

وَقَالُوا إِنْ هَٰذَا إِلَّا سِحْرٌ مُّبِينٌ ١٥

and they say, ’This is nothing but manifest sorcery.

أَإِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَامًا أَإِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ ١٦

What, when we are dead and become dust and bones, shall we indeed be raised up?

أَوَآبَاؤُنَا الْأَوَّلُونَ ١٧

What, and our fathers, the ancients?’

قُلْ نَعَمْ وَأَنتُمْ دَاخِرُونَ ١٨

Say: ’Yes, and in all lowliness.’

فَإِنَّمَا هِيَ زَجْرَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ فَإِذَا هُمْ يَنظُرُونَ ١٩

For it is only a single scaring, then behold, they are watching

وَقَالُوا يَا وَيْلَنَا هَٰذَا يَوْمُ الدِّينِ ٢٠

and they say, ’Woe, alas for us! This is the Day of Doom.’