إِنَّما توعَدونَ لَواقِعٌ

What you’re promised is to come.

فَإِذَا النُّجومُ طُمِسَت

When the stars are obliterated.

وَإِذَا السَّماءُ فُرِجَت

And the sky is fractured.

وَإِذَا الجِبالُ نُسِفَت

And the mountains are blown away.

وَإِذَا الرُّسُلُ أُقِّتَت

And when the messengers’ time has been appointed.

لِيَومِ الفَصلِ

To the Day of Sorting.

وَما أَدراكَ ما يَومُ الفَصلِ

And what will make you understand what the Day of Sorting is?

وَيلٌ يَومَئِذٍ لِلمُكَذِّبينَ

Woe, on that Day, to the deniers!

أَلَم نُهلِكِ الأَوَّلينَ

Didn’t We annihilate the first ones?

ثُمَّ نُتبِعُهُمُ الآخِرينَ

Then We followed them up with the later ones.