- Nay, I swear by the Day of Resurrection;
- Nay, I swear by the accusing soul (that this Scripture is
true).
- Thinketh man that We shall not assemble his bones ?
- Yea, verily. We are Able to restore his very fingers!
- But man would fain deny what is before him.
- He asketh: When will be this Day of Resurrection ?
- But when sight is confounded
- And the moon is eclipsed
- And sun and moon are united,
- On that day man will cry: Whither to flee!
- Alas! No refuge!
- Unto thy Lord is the recourse that day.
- On that day man is told the tale of that which he hath sent
before and left behind.
- Oh, but man is a telling witness against himself,
- Although he tender his excuses.
- Stir not thy tongue herewith to hasten it.
- Lo! upon Us (resteth) the putting together thereof and the
reading thereof.
- And when We read it, follow thou the reading;
- Then lo! upon Us (resteth) the explanation thereof.
- Nay, but ye do love the fleeting Now
- And neglect the Hereafter.
- That day will faces be resplendent,
- Looking toward their Lord;
- And that day will other faces be despondent,
- Thou wilt know that some great disaster is about to fall on
them.
- Nay, but when the life cometh up to the throat
- And men say: Where is the wizard (who can save him now) ?
- And he knoweth that it is the parting;
- And agony is heaped on agony;
- Unto thy Lord that day will be the driving.
- For he neither trusted, nor prayed.
- But he denied and flouted.
- Then went he to his folk with glee.
- Nearer unto thee and nearer,
- Again nearer unto thee and nearer (is the doom).
- Thinketh man that he is to be left aimless ?
- Was he not a drop of fluid which gushed forth ?
- Then he became a clot; then (Allah) shaped and fashioned
- And made of him a pair, the male and female.
- Is not He (Who doeth so) Able to bring the dead to life ?