The Rolling (Al-Takweer)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
When the sun is overthrown, 1 The stars turn dim and scatter, 2 and when the mountains are made to vanish, 3 And when milch camels roam abandoned. 4 And when the wild animals are made to go forth, 5 When the oceans surge and swell, 6 And when souls are reunited, 7 And when the girl buried alive shall be asked: 8 for what sin she was killed, 9 And when the Records of Account are laid bare. 10 And when the heaven is torn away. 11 and when Hell is set ablaze, 12 And when Paradise shall be brought near, 13 [then] each soul shall know what it has put forward. 14 Rather, I swear by the returning 15 the planets that run their course and set, 16 And by the night as it closes in 17 and brightening morning, 18 That this is indeed the word of an honoured Messenger, 19 who is honored in the presence of the Lord of the Throne, 20 obeyed, moreover trusty. 21 For, this fellow-man of yours is not a madman: 22 he truly beheld [the angel - beheld] him on the clear horizon; 23 He is not avid of the Unseen. 24 Nor is this the word of an outcast devil. 25 Whither then go ye? 26 It is nothing but Good Counsel for everyone in the world, 27 To whomsoever among you who wills to walk straight, 28 And ye shall not will unless it be that Allah, the Lord of the worlds, willeth. 29