Surah Al-Qiyāmah (The Resurrection) in English

1. كلا بل تحبون العاجلة

   20

   No! Indeed, you love this transitory life

   kallā bal tuḥibbūna l-ʿājilata

2. وتذرون الآخرة

   21

   and forsake the Hereafter.

   wa-tadharūna l-ʾākhirata

3. وجوه يومئذ ناضرة

   22

   Some faces will be fresh on that day,

   wujūhun yawmaʾidhin nāḍiratun

4. إلى ربها ناظرة

   23

   looking to their Lord,

   ʾilā rabbihā nāẓiratun

5. ووجوه يومئذ باسرة

   24

   and some faces will be scowling on that day,

   wa-wujūhun yawmaʾidhin bāsiratun

6. تظن أن يفعل بها فاقرة

   25

   knowing that they will be dealt out a punishment breaking the spine.

   taẓunnu ʾan yufʿala bihā fāqiratun

7. كلا إذا بلغت التراقي

   26

   No indeed! When it reaches up to the collar bones

   kallā ʾidhā balaghati t-tarāqiya

8. وقيل من راق

   27

   and it is said, ‘Who will take him up?’

   wa-qīla man rāqin

9. وظن أنه الفراق

   28

   and he knows that it is the [time of] parting,

   wa-ẓanna ʾannahu l-firāqu

10. والتفت الساق بالساق

    29

    and each shank clasps the other shank,

    wa-ltaffati s-sāqu bi-s-sāqi

11. إلى ربك يومئذ المساق

    30

    that day he shall be driven toward your Lord.

    ʾilā rabbika yawmaʾidhin-i l-masāqu

12. فلا صدق ولا صلى

    31

    He neither confirmed [the messages of Allah], nor did he pray,

    fa-lā ṣaddaqa wa-lā ṣallā

13. ولكن كذب وتولى

    32

    but denied [them] and turned away,

    wa-lākin kadhdhaba wa-tawallā

14. ثم ذهب إلى أهله يتمطى

    33

    and went back swaggering to his family.

    thumma dhahaba ʾilā ʾahlihī yatamaṭṭā

15. أولى لك فأولى

    34

    So, woe to you! Woe to you!

    ʾawlā laka fa-ʾawlā

16. ثم أولى لك فأولى

    35

    Again, woe to you! Woe to you!

    thumma ʾawlā laka fa-ʾawlā

17. أيحسب الإنسان أن يترك سدى

    36

    Does man suppose that he has been abandoned to futility?

    ʾa-yaḥsabu l-ʾinsānu ʾan yutraka sudan

18. ألم يك نطفة من مني يمنى

    37

    Was he not a drop of emitted semen,

    ʾa-lam yaku nuṭfatan min maniyyin yumnā

19. ثم كان علقة فخلق فسوى

    38

    and then a clinging mass? Whereat He created and proportioned [him],

    thumma kāna ʿalaqatan fa-khalaqa fa-sawwā

20. فجعل منه الزوجين الذكر والأنثى

    39

    and made of him the two sexes, male and female.

    fa-jaʿala minhu z-zawjayni dh-dhakara wa-l-ʾunthā

21. أليس ذلك بقادر على أن يحيي الموتى

    40

    Is not [someone like] that able to revive the dead?

    ʾa-laysa dhālika bi-qādirin ʿalā ʾan yuḥyiya l-mawtā