Surah An-Nazi'at, Ayah 21-40 — Word by Word
النازعات
Those who drag forth
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
fakadhaba waʿaṣā
But he [i.e., Pharaoh] denied and disobeyed.
thumma adbara yasʿā
Then he turned his back, striving [i.e., plotting].
faḥashara fanādā
And he gathered [his people] and called out.
faqāla anā rabbukumu l-aʿlā
And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
fa-akhadhahu l-lahu nakāla l-ākhirati wal-ūlā
So Allāh seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression]..
inna fī dhālika laʿib'ratan liman yakhshā
Indeed in that is a lesson [i.e., warning] for whoever would fear [Allāh].
a-antum ashaddu khalqan ami l-samāu banāhā
Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? He [i.e., Allāh] constructed it.
rafaʿa samkahā fasawwāhā
He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
wa-aghṭasha laylahā wa-akhraja ḍuḥāhā
And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
wal-arḍa baʿda dhālika daḥāhā
And after that He spread the earth.
akhraja min'hā māahā wamarʿāhā
He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
wal-jibāla arsāhā
And the mountains He set firmly
matāʿan lakum wali-anʿāmikum
As enjoyment [i.e., provision] for you and your grazing livestock.
fa-idhā jāati l-ṭāmatu l-kub'rā
But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -
yawma yatadhakkaru l-insānu mā saʿā
The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
waburrizati l-jaḥīmu liman yarā
And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -
fa-ammā man ṭaghā
So as for he who transgressed
waāthara l-ḥayata l-dun'yā
And preferred the life of the world,
fa-inna l-jaḥīma hiya l-mawā
Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
wa-ammā man khāfa maqāma rabbihi wanahā l-nafsa ʿani l-hawā
But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,