Move not your tongue with it, ˹O Muhammad˺, to hasten with recitation of the Qur'an.  

لَا تُحَرِّكْ بِهِ لِسَانَكَ لِتَعْجَلَ بِهِ  

Indeed, upon Us is its collection ˹in your heart˺ and ˹to make possible˺ its recitation.  

إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا جَمْعَهُ وَقُرْآنَهُ  

So when We have recited it ˹through Gabriel˺, then follow its recitation.  

فَإِذَا قَرَأْنَاهُ فَاتَّبِعْ قُرْآنَهُ  

Then upon Us is its clarification ˹to you˺.  

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا بَيَانَهُ  

No! But you love the immediate  

كَلَّا بَلْ تُحِبُّونَ الْعَاجِلَةَ  

And leave the Hereafter.  

وَتَذَرُونَ الْآخِرَةَ  

˹Some˺ faces, that Day, will be radiant,  

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَاضِرَةٌ  

Looking at their Lord.  

إِلَىٰ رَبِّهَا نَاظِرَةٌ  

And ˹some˺ faces, that Day, will be contorted,  

وَوُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ بَاسِرَةٌ  

Expecting that there will be done to them ˹something˺ backbreaking.  

تَظُنُّ أَنْ يُفْعَلَ بِهَا فَاقِرَةٌ  

No! When the soul has reached the collar bones  

كَلَّا إِذَا بَلَغَتِ التَّرَاقِيَ  

And it is said, "Who will cure ˹him˺?"  

وَقِيلَ مَنْ ۜ رَاقٍ  

And the dying one is certain that it is the ˹time of˺ separation  

وَظَنَّ أَنَّهُ الْفِرَاقُ  

And the leg is wound about the leg,  

وَالْتَفَّتِ السَّاقُ بِالسَّاقِ  

To your Lord, that Day, will be the procession.  

إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ يَوْمَئِذٍ الْمَسَاقُ