Resurrection (Al-Qeyaamah)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
۞ I CALL TO WITNESS the Day of Resurrection, 1 Nay! I swear by the self-accusing soul. 2 Does man (a disbeliever) think that We shall not assemble his bones? 3 Nay, We are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his fingers. 4 Yet man is sceptical of what is right before him. 5 He asketh: when will the Day of Resurrection be? 6 So when vision is dazzled 7 And the moon is eclipsed 8 and the sun and the moon are joined together, 9 Man shall say on that day: Whither to fly to? 10 By no means! there shall be no place of refuge! 11 On that day, the station is only towards your Lord. 12 To man will be declared on that Day that which he hath sent on and left behind. 13 Oh, but man is a telling witness against himself, 14 And even if he presents all the excuses he has, none will be listened to. 15 MOVE NOT thy tongue in haste, [repeating the words of the revelation:] 16 It is for Us to collect it and to give you (O Muhammad SAW) the ability to recite it (the Quran), 17 Therefore when We have recited it, follow its recitation. 18 And thereafter verily upon us is the expounding thereof. 19 Nay, (ye men!) but ye love the fleeting life, 20 and give no thought to the life to come [and to Judgment Day]! 21 How many faces will be refulgent on that Day, 22 gazing towards their Lord. 23 And some faces, that Day, will be sad and dismal, 24 dreading some great affliction. 25 Nay, but when the life cometh up to the throat 26 And they will say, “Is there any one – any magician?” 27 and he thinks that it is the parting 28 And one leg will be joined with another: 29 That Day the Drive will be (all) to thy Lord! 30