The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
By the heaven and the night-comer 1 And what shall make thee know that which the night-comer is? 2 The piercing star! 3 There is no soul but that it has over it a protector. 4 Let the human reflect of what he is created. 5 Created from a gushing fluid. 6 issuing from between the loins [of man] and the pelvic arch [of woman]. 7 Most surely He is able to return him (to life). 8 The day all secrets are examined 9 He will have no strength or helper. 10 So I call to witness the rain-producing sky, 11 by the earth cracking open with new growth. 12 It is surely a decisive utterance; 13 it is not a jest. 14 Surely they will make a scheme, 15 but I shall bring all their scheming to nought. 16 Let, then, the deniers of the truth have their will: let them have their will for a little while. 17