The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
I CALL TO witness the heavens and the night Star -- 1 What could let you know what the nightly comer is! 2 The very brightly shining star! 3 That over each soul there is a guardian. 4 Let man consider what he was made of: 5 he has been created out of a seminal fluid 6 issuing from between the backbone and the breastbone: 7 Most surely He is able to return him (to life). 8 On the day when hidden thoughts shall be searched out. 9 (Man) will have no power, and no helper. 10 By the heaven which returneth, 11 And the earth which splitteth (with the growth of trees and plants) 12 It is surely a decisive utterance; 13 And it is not amusement. 14 Indeed the disbelievers carry out their evil schemes. 15 But I too am devising a plan. 16 Let, then, the deniers of the truth have their will: let them have their will for a little while. 17