فَمَالِ So what is with famāli those who alladhīna disbelieve kafarū before you qibalaka (they) hasten muh'ṭiʿīna
So what is [the matter] with those who disbelieve, hastening [from] before you, [O Muḥammad],
عَنِ On ʿani the right l-yamīni and on waʿani the left l-shimāli (in) separate groups ʿizīna
[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?
أَيَطْمَعُ Does long ayaṭmaʿu every kullu person im'ri-in among them min'hum that an he enters yud'khala a Garden jannata (of) Delight naʿīmin
Does every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure?
كَلَّآ ۖ By no means kallā Indeed, We innā [We] have created them khalaqnāhum from what mimmā they know yaʿlamūna
No! Indeed, We have created them from that which they know.
فَلَآ But nay falā I swear uq'simu by (the) Lord birabbi (of) the risings l-mashāriqi and the settings wal-maghāribi that We innā (are) surely Able laqādirūna
So I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings that indeed We are able
عَلَىٰٓ [On] ʿalā to an [We] replace nubaddila (with) better khayran than them min'hum and not wamā We naḥnu (are) to be outrun bimasbūqīna
To replace them with better than them; and We are not to be outdone.
فَذَرْهُمْ So leave them fadharhum (to) converse vainly yakhūḍū and amuse themselves wayalʿabū until ḥattā they meet yulāqū their Day yawmahumu which alladhī they are promised yūʿadūna
So leave them to converse vainly and amuse themselves until they meet their Day which they are promised -
يَوْمَ (The) Day yawma they will come out yakhrujūna from mina the graves l-ajdāthi rapidly sirāʿan as if they (were) ka-annahum to ilā a goal nuṣubin hastening yūfiḍūna
The Day they will emerge from the graves rapidly as if they were, toward an erected idol, hastening.
خَـٰشِعَةً Humbled khāshiʿatan their eyesights abṣāruhum will cover them tarhaquhum humiliation dhillatun That dhālika (is) the Day l-yawmu which alladhī they were kānū promised yūʿadūna
Their eyes humbled, humiliation will cover them. That is the Day which they had been promised.