The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
By the Sky and the Night-Visitant (therein);- 1 And what could make thee conceive what it is that comes in the night? 2 (It is a nightly radiant star). 3 No soul is there but hath over it a watcher. 4 So man must consider from what he has been created. 5 He was created from a fluid, ejected, 6 issuing from between the loins [of man] and the pelvic arch [of woman]. 7 Indeed, Allah, to return him [to life], is Able. 8 A day when the secrets will be examined. 9 (Man) will have no power, and no helper. 10 I swear by the raingiving heavens, 11 and the earth, bursting forth with plants! 12 surely it is a decisive word; 13 not a flippant jest. 14 They are devising guile, 15 but I shall bring all their scheming to nought. 16 so bear with those who deny the truth, and let them be for a little while. 17