سورة الأنبياء، الآية ١
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
ٱقْتَرَبَ لِلنَّاسِ حِسَابُهُمْ وَهُمْ فِى غَفْلَةٍ مُّعْرِضُونَ ١
iq'taraba lilnnāsi ḥisābuhum wahum fī ghaflatin muʿ'riḍūna
[The time of] their account has approached for the people, while they are in heedlessness turning away.
Verse 1 of Surah Al-Anbya (21:1), a Meccan surah, is in juz 17, on page 322 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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People’s being taken to account for their actions on the Day of Judgment has come close, but they are turning away from the afterlife in their unmindfulness, due to their being preoccupied with the world.
The reckoning of the people has drawn near, yet they are turning away heedlessly.
Draws near for mankind their reckoning, while they turn away in heedlessness.
Their reckoning draweth nigh for mankind, while they turn away in heedlessness.
Closer and closer to mankind comes their Reckoning: yet they heed not and they turn away.
Their reckoning has drawn near to men, and in heedlessness are they turning aside.
Near to mankind has drawn their reckoning, and they, in (a state of) heedlessness, are veering away.
أَتَىٰٓ أَمْرُ ٱللَّهِ فَلَا تَسْتَعْجِلُوهُ سُبْحَٰنَهُۥ وَتَعَٰلَىٰ عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ
The command of Allāh is coming, so be not impatient for it. Exalted is He and high above what they associate with Him.
ٱقْتَرَبَتِ ٱلسَّاعَةُ وَٱنشَقَّ ٱلْقَمَرُ …
The Hour has come near, and the moon has split [in two]. …
وَمَا مَنَعَنَآ أَن نُّرْسِلَ بِٱلْـَٔايَٰتِ إِلَّآ أَن كَذَّبَ بِهَا ٱلْأَوَّلُونَ وَءَاتَيْنَا ثَمُودَ ٱلنَّاقَةَ مُبْصِرَةً فَظَلَمُوا۟ بِهَا وَمَا نُرْسِلُ بِٱلْـَٔايَٰتِ إِلَّا تَخْوِيفًا
And nothing has prevented Us from sending signs [i.e., miracles] except that the former peoples denied them. And We gave Thamūd the she-camel as a visible sign, but they wronged her. And We send not the signs except as a warning.
