لَآ

أُقۡسِمُ

بِيَوۡمِ

ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ

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I do swear by the Day of Judgment!

And I do swear by the self-reproaching soul!

Do people think We cannot reassemble their bones?

Yes ˹indeed˺! We are ˹most˺ capable of restoring ˹even˺ their very fingertips.¹

Still people want to deny what is yet to come,

asking ˹mockingly˺, “When is this Day of Judgment?”

But when the sight is stunned,

and the moon is dimmed,

and the sun and the moon are brought together,¹

on that Day one will cry, “Where is the escape?”

But no! There will be no refuge.

On that Day all will end up before your Lord.

All will then be informed of what they have sent forth and left behind.

In fact, people will testify against their own souls,¹

despite the excuses they come up with.

Do not rush your tongue trying to memorize ˹a revelation of˺ the Quran.

It is certainly upon Us to ˹make you˺ memorize and recite it.

So once We have recited a revelation ˹through Gabriel˺, follow its recitation ˹closely˺.

Then it is surely upon Us to make it clear ˹to you˺.