The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
By heaven and the night-star! 1 How will you comprehend what the night star is? 2 It is the star that pierces through [life's] darkness: 3 There is no soul which is not guarded (by the two angels who record all of its deeds). 4 So man must consider from what he has been created. 5 Created from a gushing fluid. 6 issuing from between the backbone and the breastbone: 7 Verily He is Able to restore him, 8 On the Day when man's deepest secrets shall be put to the test 9 He shall have neither strength nor helper. 10 By the heaven with its recurring cycle of rain, 11 by the earth cracking open with new growth. 12 surely it is a decisive word; 13 It is no pleasantry. 14 They are devising a guile, 15 and I too am devising a guile. 16 Therefore respite the unbelievers, and delay them for a while. 17