The Rolling (Al-Takweer)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
When the sun is folded up, 1 when the stars shall be thrown down, 2 And when the hills are moved, 3 And when the pregnant she-camels shall be neglected; 4 when the savage beasts shall be mustered, 5 when the seas are set boiling, 6 And when the souls shall be joined with their bodies; 7 And the little girl buried alive is asked 8 For what sin she was killed, 9 When the ledgers are laid open, 10 when heaven is stripped, 11 And when the Scorch shall be made to blaze, 12 And when the garden is brought nigh, 13 (Then) every soul will know what it hath made ready. 14 So verily I call to witness the planets - that recede, 15 Moving swiftly and hiding themselves, 16 And by the night as it closes in 17 The rising dawn, 18 Verily it is a Word brought by a messenger honoured, 19 [Who is] possessed of power and with the Owner of the Throne, secure [in position], 20 Obeyed (by the angels), trustworthy there (in the heavens). 21 For, this fellow-man of yours is not a madman: 22 he truly beheld [the angel - beheld] him on the clear horizon; 23 Nor of the unseen is he a tenacious concealer. 24 And the Qur'an is not the word of a devil, expelled [from the heavens]. 25 So where are you going? 26 It is naught but a reminder for the nations, 27 For those of you who desire to walk the path that is straight, 28 And ye shall not will unless it be that Allah, the Lord of the worlds, willeth. 29