The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
CONSIDER the heavens and that which comes in the night! 1 And what could make thee conceive what it is that comes in the night? 2 It is the star that pierces through [life's] darkness: 3 Over every soul there is a watcher. 4 LET MAN, then, observe out of what he has been created: 5 he has been created out of a seminal fluid 6 issuing between the loins and the breast-bones. 7 Indeed Allah is Able to return him. 8 On the Day when secrets are disclosed, 9 He shall have neither strength nor helper. 10 By the heaven which giveth the returning rain, 11 and by the earth ever bursting with verdure, 12 Indeed, the Qur'an is a decisive statement, 13 it is no merriment. 14 Behold, they [who refuse to accept it] devise many a false argument [to disprove its truth]; 15 And I am planning a scheme. 16 Let, then, the deniers of the truth have their will: let them have their will for a little while. 17