أَأَنتُم أَشَدُّ خَلقًا أَمِ السَّماءُ ۚ بَناها

Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed it.

رَفَعَ سَمكَها فَسَوّاها

He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.

وَأَغطَشَ لَيلَها وَأَخرَجَ ضُحاها

And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.

وَالأَرضَ بَعدَ ذٰلِكَ دَحاها

And after that He spread the earth.

أَخرَجَ مِنها ماءَها وَمَرعاها

He extracted from it its water and its pasture,

مَتاعًا لَكُم وَلِأَنعامِكُم

As provision for you and your grazing livestock.

فَإِذا جاءَتِ الطّامَّةُ الكُبرىٰ

But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -

يَومَ يَتَذَكَّرُ الإِنسانُ ما سَعىٰ

The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,

وَبُرِّزَتِ الجَحيمُ لِمَن يَرىٰ

And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -

فَأَمّا مَن طَغىٰ

So as for he who transgressed