Opens with oaths describing angels associated with death and judgment, then briefly retells Moses's confrontation with Pharaoh, drawing a line between a tyrant who claimed ultimate authority for himself and the reality of resurrection and judgment that awaits everyone regardless of worldly power. Beyond Pharaoh, it briefly touches on the day of judgment's psychological weight — describing hearts trembling and eyes downcast among the guilty — before closing with a note that people always ask when the hour will come, an answer explicitly declared beyond human knowledge. It briefly reflects on how creating the heavens is a greater feat than creating humanity, listing the raising of the sky, its perfection, the darkening of its night and brightening of its day, as evidence meant to make the resurrection of a single person seem comparatively modest by contrast.
Contrasts a tyrant's claimed ultimate authority with the reality that everyone answers to something greater — a message about the limits of worldly power. Its explicit refusal to name a specific date for the hour is frequently cited in Islamic theology as a firm boundary against speculative predictions about the end times, treated as knowledge reserved to God alone. That comparative argument — resurrection is smaller than the creation of the heavens, which already happened — is frequently cited as one of the Quran's clearer scale-based arguments, using something larger and undeniable to make something smaller and doubted seem more plausible.