The Rolling (Al-Takweer)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
When the sun is wound up; 1 when the stars shall be thrown down, 2 The mountains made to move, 3 when the ten-months pregnant camels shall be abandoned, 4 And when wild animals are herded together. 5 and when the seas boil over, 6 when the souls shall be rejoined (with their bodies), 7 And when the girl buried alive shall be asked: 8 for what crime she was slain, 9 And when the pages are laid open, 10 the heavens are unveiled, 11 And when the Scorch shall be made to blaze, 12 when Paradise shall be brought nigh, 13 [then] each soul shall know what it has put forward. 14 Oh, but I call to witness the planets, 15 the runners, the sinkers, 16 and the night as it darkly falls, 17 And by oath of the morning when it takes birth. 18 Verily it is a Word brought by a messenger honoured, 19 of power, given a rank by the Owner of the Throne 20 One (to be) obeyed, and faithful in trust. 21 And (O people!) your companion is not one possessed; 22 in truth he saw him (Gabriel) on the clear horizon, 23 he is not niggardly of the Unseen. 24 Nor is it the word of an evil spirit accursed. 25 Whither then will you go? 26 It is nothing but Good Counsel for everyone in the world, 27 For him among you who pleases to go straight. 28 Though you cannot desire except as God will, the Lord of all the worlds. 29