The Comet (Al-Taareq)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
By the Sky and the Night-Visitant (therein);- 1 And what will make you to know what At-Tariq (night-comer) is? 2 (It is) the piercing star. 3 No soul is there but hath over it a watcher. 4 Now let man but think from what he is created! 5 he has been created out of a seminal fluid 6 Proceeding from between the backbone and the ribs: 7 Indeed Allah is Able to return him. 8 The Day that (all) things secret will be tested, 9 and he shall have no strength, no helper. 10 By the heaven which returneth, 11 And by the Earth which opens out (for the gushing of springs or the sprouting of vegetation),- 12 Indeed the Qur’an is a decisive Word. 13 And is not a matter of amusement. 14 Indeed the disbelievers carry out their evil schemes. 15 and so am I: 16 Therefore give them some respite – give them some time. 17