An-Nazi'at Verse 1

By those ˹angels˺ stripping out ˹evil souls˺ harshly,

By those who pull out [evil souls] harshly,

By those that pluck out vehemently

By the forceful chargers

By the angels who drag forth vehemently.

By the (angels) who tear out (the souls of the wicked) with violence;

By those (angels) that pluck out the soul from depths,

I CALL TO WITNESS those who dive and drag,

By oath of those who harshly pull out the soul. (Of the disbeliever)

By those [angels] who wrest [the soul] violently,

By those (angels) who immediately fly out and plunge (with God’s command), and plunge (into fulfilling it);

I call to witness those groups of beings, who perform their duties (towards their Lord and mankind and themselves) with intense zeal and to the best of their capacity,

And/by the strangers/life extractors , exaggerating/absorbing (violently) .

By oath of those who harshly pull out the soul. (Of the disbeliever)

I swear by (or call to witness) those who tear out to destruction,

By those (angels) who pull out (the souls of the disbelievers and the wicked) with great violence;

And those going forth cheerfully!

I swear by the angels who violently pull out the souls of the wicked,

By those who drag forth to destruction,

By the angels who violently tear-out the souls of the disbelievers from their bodies,

By the pluckers (the angels of death), violently plucking (the souls of the unbelievers),

By those who pull out, drowning.

By [the winds] that pluck out vehemently

By those who snatch violently.

By those that wrest, [by] the angels who wrest the souls of disbelievers, violently;

Swearing by Five Characteristics that the Day of Judgement will occur

Ibn Mas`ud, Ibn Abbas, Masruq, Sa`id bin Jubayr, Abu Salih, Abu Ad-Duha and As-Suddi all said,

وَالنَّازِعَاتِ غَرْقًا




By those who pull out, drowning.

"These are the angels who remove the souls from the Children of Adam."

Among them are those whose souls are removed by the angels with difficulty, as if he is being drowned during its removal. There are those people whose souls the angels remove with ease, as if they were unraveling him (i.e., his soul from him) due to their briskness.

This is the meaning of Allah's statement,

وَالنَّاشِطَاتِ نَشْطًا