سَبَأ : ٣

  • وَقَالَ But say
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • كَفَرُواْ disbelieve
  • لَا Not
  • تَأۡتِينَا will come to us
  • ٱلسَّاعَةُۖ the Hour
  • قُلۡ Say
  • بَلَىٰ Nay
  • وَرَبِّي by my Lord
  • لَتَأۡتِيَنَّكُمۡ surely it will come to you
  • عَٰلِمِ (He is the) Knower
  • ٱلۡغَيۡبِۖ (of) the unseen
  • لَا Not
  • يَعۡزُبُ escapes
  • عَنۡهُ from Him
  • مِثۡقَالُ (the) weight
  • ذَرَّةٖ (of) an atom
  • فِي in
  • ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ the heavens
  • وَلَا and not
  • فِي in
  • ٱلۡأَرۡضِ the earth
  • وَلَآ and not
  • أَصۡغَرُ smaller
  • مِن than
  • ذَٰلِكَ that
  • وَلَآ and not
  • أَكۡبَرُ greater
  • إِلَّا but
  • فِي (is) in
  • كِتَٰبٖ a Record
  • مُّبِينٖ Clear
But those who disbelieve say, "The Hour will not come to us." Say, "Yes, by my Lord, it will surely come to you. [Allāh is] the Knower of the unseen." Not absent from Him is an atom's weight1 within the heavens or within the earth or [what is] smaller than that or greater, except that it is in a clear register -
Footnotes
1 Or "the weight of a small ant."
And those who disbelieve say, 'The Hour, the Resurrection, will never come to us'. Say, to them: 'Yes indeed, by my Lord, it shall come to you - [by] the Knower of the Unseen (read 'aalimi'l-ghaybi as an adjectival qualification [of wa-rabbee, 'by my Lord'], or read 'aalimu'l-ghaybi, as the predicate of a [missing] subject [such as huwa, 'He is']; or read 'allaami'l-ghaybi). Not [even] the weight of an atom escapes, is hidden [from], Him in the skies or in the earth, nor [is there] anything smaller than that or greater, but it is in a Manifest Book, namely, the Preserved Tablet (al-lawh al-mahfooz),