The Rolling (Al-Takweer)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
When the sun is overthrown, 1 when the stars shall be thrown down, 2 And when the mountains are made to pass away, 3 and when she-camels big with young, about to give birth, are left untended, 4 The wild beasts stampede on the run, 5 when the seas shall be set boiling, 6 And when the souls he paired, 7 And when the girl-child who was buried alive is asked. 8 for what crime she was slain, 9 And when the books are spread, 10 and when Heaven is laid bare; 11 and when Hell is set ablaze, 12 And when the Garden is brought nigh, 13 Every soul shall (then) know what it has prepared. 14 BUT NAY! I call to witness the revolving stars, 15 That run their course (and) hide themselves, 16 And the Night as it dissipates; 17 by the dawn sighing, 18 it is indeed the word of an Honorable Messenger, 19 endowed with power and held in honour by the Lord of the Throne -- 20 there he is obeyed and held trustworthy. 21 And your companion is not [at all] mad. 22 Surely he beheld Him on the clear horizon. 23 And Muhammad is not a withholder of [knowledge of] the unseen. 24 Nor is it the word of a satan accursed. 25 Whither then go ye? 26 It is not except a reminder to the worlds 27 for whosoever of you would go straight, 28 And ye will not, unless (it be) that Allah willeth, the Lord of Creation. 29