The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
By the heaven, and the night-visitor, 1 What could let you know what the nightly comer is! 2 It is the star shining brightly. 3 There is not a soul but over it is a keeper. 4 LET MAN, then, observe out of what he has been created: 5 He was created of spurting water 6 that issues from between the loins and the ribs. 7 Most surely He is able to return him (to life). 8 On the day when hidden things shall be made manifest, 9 So man will neither have any strength nor any aide. 10 By heaven of the returning rain, 11 And [by] the earth which cracks open, 12 Lo! this (Qur'an) is a conclusive word, 13 And it is not a frivolity. 14 Verily they are plotting a plot. 15 and I too am devising a guile. 16 Let, then, the deniers of the truth have their will: let them have their will for a little while. 17