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,