The Snatchers (Al-Naze'aat)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
By those (angels) that pluck out the soul from depths, 1 by the drawers (the angels of death), gently drawing (the souls of the believers), 2 By the angels who glide swimmingly, 3 by those that outstrip them suddenly, 4 by those that direct an affair! 5 On the Day, the shiverer shivers 6 And there will follow it the next blast. 7 Hearts that Day will be in agitation; 8 and their eyes will be humbled. 9 They shall say, 'What, are we being restored as we were before? 10 What! when we are rotten bones? 11 They say: "It would, in that case, be a return with loss!" 12 Indeed, it will be but one shout, 13 When, behold, they find themselves over the earth alive after their death, 14 Has Moses' story reached you? 15 Lo! His Sustainer called out to him in the twice-hallowed valley: 16 saying, "Go to the Pharaoh. He has transgressed beyond all bounds. 17 And say to him, "Would you like to reform yourself? 18 [If so,] then I shall guide thee towards [a cognition of] thy Sustainer, so that [henceforth] thou wilt stand in awe [of Him].'" 19 And he showed him the greatest sign, 20 but he cried lies, and rebelled, 21 and brusquely turned his back [on Moses]; 22 Then he collected (his men) and made a proclamation, 23 and proclaimed, and he said, 'I am your Lord, the Most High!' 24 Allah therefore seized him, in the punishment of this world and the Hereafter. 25 Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for him who feareth. 26