The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
I CALL TO witness the heavens and the night Star -- 1 and what could make you know what it is that comes in the night? 2 (It is) the star of piercing brightness; 3 No soul is there but hath over it a watcher. 4 So man must consider from what he has been created. 5 He was created of spurting water 6 Issuing from (the pelvis) between the backbone and the ribs. 7 Indeed Allah is Able to return him. 8 on the Day when consciences are examined, 9 Then will (man) have no power, nor any helper. 10 So I call to witness the rain-producing sky, 11 And [by] the earth which cracks open, 12 BEHOLD, this [divine writ] is indeed a word that distinguishes between truth and falsehood, 13 And it is no joke. 14 They are cunningly devising, 15 And I (too) am planning a plan. 16 Therefore respite the unbelievers, and delay them for a while. 17