The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
By the heaven and the Morning Star 1 And what can make you know what is the night comer? 2 The star of piercing brightness; 3 There is not a soul but over it is a keeper. 4 So let man consider from what he is created. 5 He has been created from an ejected drop of fluid 6 issuing from between the backbone and the breastbone: 7 Indeed Allah is Able to return him. 8 The day all secrets are examined 9 and [man] will have neither strength nor helper! 10 By the heaven with its recurring cycle of rain, 11 And by the Earth which opens out (for the gushing of springs or the sprouting of vegetation),- 12 Most surely it is a decisive word, 13 It is no pleasantry. 14 They are hatching up a plot, 15 And I am plotting a plot. 16 Therefore respite the unbelievers, and delay them for a while. 17