The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
By the Sky and the Night-Visitant (therein);- 1 what do you know what the night-visitor is? 2 It is the star that pierces through [life's] darkness: 3 That over each soul there is a guardian. 4 Let the human being reflect that from what he has been created. 5 He was created from a fluid, ejected, 6 issuing between the loins and the breast-bones. 7 Indeed Allah is Able to return him. 8 A day when the secrets will be examined. 9 So man will neither have any strength nor any aide. 10 So I call to witness the rain-producing sky, 11 And [by] the earth which cracks open, 12 surely it is a decisive word; 13 And it is not a frivolity. 14 They are hatching up a plot, 15 and I am cunningly devising. 16 Therefore respite the unbelievers, and delay them for a while. 17