The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
I CALL TO witness the heavens and the night Star -- 1 and what could make you know what it is that comes in the night? 2 (It is) the star of piercing brightness; 3 No soul is there but hath over it a watcher. 4 So man must consider from what he has been created. 5 He is created from a gushing fluid 6 Issuing from (the pelvis) between the backbone and the ribs. 7 Indeed Allah is Able to return him. 8 On the Day when man's deepest secrets shall be put to the test 9 and he shall have no strength, no helper. 10 By the Firmament which returns (in its round), 11 by earth splitting with verdure, 12 Most surely it is a decisive word, 13 It is no pleasantry. 14 They are devising guile, 15 And I (too) will make a scheme. 16 Give respite to the disbelievers and leave them alone for a while. 17