The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
By the heaven, and At-Tariq (the night-comer, i.e. the bright star); 1 And what will make you know what the comer by night is? 2 (It is) the piercing star. 3 No human soul but hath a guardian over it. 4 Let the human being reflect that from what he has been created. 5 He was created from ejaculated water 6 Emerging from between the backbone and the ribs. 7 Verily, (Allah) is Able to bring him back (to life)! 8 upon the day when the secrets are tried, 9 and he shall have no strength, no helper. 10 By the sky (having rain clouds) which gives rain, again and again. 11 and the replenishing earth, 12 That this is a decisive word 13 it is no merriment. 14 They are devising a guile, 15 And I am plotting a plot. 16 Therefore respite the unbelievers, and delay them for a while. 17