The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
By the Sky and the Night-Visitant (therein);- 1 And have you understood what the nightly arriver is? 2 It is the star that pierces through [life's] darkness: 3 Over every soul there is a watcher. 4 LET MAN, then, observe out of what he has been created: 5 He is created from a water gushing forth. 6 Proceeding from between the backbone and the ribs: 7 Indeed, Allah, to return him [to life], is Able. 8 The day all secrets are examined 9 He will have no strength or helper. 10 By the heavens, ever-revolving, 11 and the earth, bursting forth with plants! 12 BEHOLD, this [divine writ] is indeed a word that distinguishes between truth and falsehood, 13 not a flippant jest. 14 Lo! they plot a plot (against thee, O Muhammad) 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