اِقْتَرَبَتِ السَّاعَةُ وَ انْشَقَّ الْقَمَرُ۝۱

THE HOUR HAS come and split is the moon.

وَ اِنْ یَّرَوْا اٰیَةً یُّعْرِضُوْا وَ یَقُوْلُوْا سِحْرٌ مُّسْتَمِرٌّ۝۲

But if they see a sign they turn away, and say: "This is the same old lie continuing,"

وَ كَذَّبُوْا وَ اتَّبَعُوْۤا اَهْوَآءَهُمْ وَ كُلُّ اَمْرٍ مُّسْتَقِرٌّ۝۳

And deny, and follow their own vain desires; but every matter is determined at its time.

وَ لَقَدْ جَآءَهُمْ مِّنَ الْاَنْۢبَآءِ مَا فِیْهِ مُزْدَجَرٌۙ۝۴

Messages deterring them from evil had come to them,

حِكْمَةٌۢ بَالِغَةٌ فَمَا تُغْنِ النُّذُرُۙ۝۵

Containing consummate wisdom; yet warnings were of no avail.

فَتَوَلَّ عَنْهُمْ ۘ یَوْمَ یَدْعُ الدَّاعِ اِلٰی شَیْءٍ نُّكُرٍۙ۝۶

So turn away from them. When on the Day the crier calls to the painful business,

خُشَّعًا اَبْصَارُهُمْ یَخْرُجُوْنَ مِنَ الْاَجْدَاثِ كَاَنَّهُمْ جَرَادٌ مُّنْتَشِرٌۙ۝۷

They will come out of the graves with downcast eyes like an expanding swarm of locusts.

مُّهْطِعِیْنَ اِلَی الدَّاعِ ؕ یَقُوْلُ الْكٰفِرُوْنَ هٰذَا یَوْمٌ عَسِرٌ۝۸

They will hasten forward to the caller, gazes fixed. And the unbelievers will say: "This is the day of untold woe."

كَذَّبَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ قَوْمُ نُوْحٍ فَكَذَّبُوْا عَبْدَنَا وَ قَالُوْا مَجْنُوْنٌ وَّ ازْدُجِرَ۝۹

The people of Noah had denied before them, and had called Our votary a liar, and said: "He is possessed," and repulsed him.

فَدَعَا رَبَّهٗۤ اَنِّیْ مَغْلُوْبٌ فَانْتَصِرْ۝۱۰

So he prayed to his Lord: "I am helpless, deliver me."