The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
By the heavens and that which comes in the night -- 1 Do you know what al-tariq is? 2 The star of piercing brightness; 3 There is no soul but that it has over it a protector. 4 So let man consider of what he is created: 5 He is created from a gushing fluid 6 Coming from between the back and the ribs. 7 Surely He is able to bring him back 8 A day when the secrets will be examined. 9 He shall have neither strength nor helper. 10 By the heaven which returneth, 11 and the replenishing earth, 12 Behold this is the Word that distinguishes (Good from Evil): 13 and it is certainly not a jest. 14 Verily they are plotting a plot. 15 and I am devising guile. 16 Let, then, the deniers of the truth have their will: let them have their will for a little while. 17