The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
By the heaven, and the night-visitor, 1 And what can make you know what is the night comer? 2 It is the star that pierces through [life's] darkness: 3 There is no soul but that it has over it a protector. 4 LET MAN, then, observe out of what he has been created: 5 He was created of a gushing fluid, 6 That issued from between the loins and ribs. 7 God has certainly power to bring him back (from the dead). 8 on the Day when consciences are examined, 9 [man] will have no power, and no helper. 10 So I call to witness the rain-producing sky, 11 And the earth which splitteth (with the growth of trees and plants) 12 Verily, it is a discourse distinguishing. 13 And it is no joke. 14 Lo! they plot a plot (against thee, O Muhammad) 15 and I am devising guile. 16 Let, then, the deniers of the truth have their will: let them have their will for a little while. 17