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Creator Verses

Surah 99

Az-Zalzalah

The Earthquake

8 verses · Madinan · revealed 93rd

الزلزلة

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

إِذَا زُلْزِلَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ زِلْزَالَهَا

Itha zulzilati al-ardu zilzalaha

When the earth is shaken with its [final] earthquake

When the earth will be trembled with its quake,

وَأَخْرَجَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ أَثْقَالَهَا

Waakhrajati al-ardu athqalaha

And the earth discharges its burdens

and the earth will bring forth its burdens,

وَقَالَ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنُ مَا لَهَا

Waqala al-insanu ma laha

And man says, "What is [wrong] with it?" -

and man will say, “What has happened to it?”

يَوْمَئِذٍ تُحَدِّثُ أَخْبَارَهَا

Yawma-ithin tuhaddithu akhbaraha

That Day, it will report its news

That day it will describe all its happenings,

بِأَنَّ رَبَّكَ أَوْحَىٰ لَهَا

Bi-anna rabbaka awha laha

Because your Lord has inspired [i.e., commanded] it.

because its Lord will have so commanded it.

يَوْمَئِذٍ يَصْدُرُ ٱلنَّاسُ أَشْتَاتًا لِّيُرَوْا۟ أَعْمَـٰلَهُمْ

Yawma-ithin yasduru annasuashtatan liyuraw aAAmalahum

That Day, the people will depart separated [into categories] to be shown [the result of] their deeds.

That day the people will come back (from the place of reckoning) in different groups, so that they may be shown (the fruits of) their deeds.

فَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُۥ

Faman yaAAmal mithqala tharratinkhayran yarah

So whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it,

So, whoever does any good act (even) to the weight of a particle will see it.

وَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُۥ

Waman yaAAmal mithqala tharratinsharran yarah

And whoever does an atom's weight of evil will see it.

And whoever does evil (even) to the weight of a particle will see it.