The Rolling (Al-Takweer)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
When the sun is folded up, 1 the stars are made to fade away, 2 And when the mountains shall made to pass away; 3 And when milch camels roam abandoned. 4 and when all beasts are gathered together, 5 when the seas shall be set boiling, 6 And when the souls are paired. 7 and when the girl-child buried alive shall be asked: 8 For what crime she was killed; 9 And when the pages are laid open, 10 And when the heaven shall be stripped, 11 And when hell is lighted, 12 and when paradise is brought into view: 13 then, each soul shall know what it has produced. 14 But nay! I swear by the stars, 15 Who move straight and stop. 16 And the Night as it dissipates; 17 And the Dawn as it breathes away the darkness;- 18 That this is in truth the word of an honoured messenger, 19 The processor of strength, having an honorable place with the Lord of the Dominion, 20 Obeyed there [in the heavens] and trustworthy. 21 For, this fellow-man of yours is not a madman: 22 in truth he saw him (Gabriel) on the clear horizon, 23 he is not niggardly of the Unseen. 24 Nor is this the utterance of a devil worthy to be stoned. 25 When whither go ye? 26 This is certainly the guidance for all (jinn and mankind). 27 So let those who want, choose the right guidance 28 But ye shall not will except as Allah wills,- the Cherisher of the Worlds. 29