The Comet (Al-Taareq)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
By the heavens and that which comes in the night -- 1 And what shall teach thee what is the night-star? 2 The piercing star! 3 No human soul but hath a guardian over it. 4 So man must consider from what he has been created. 5 He is created from a water gushing forth. 6 That issueth from between the loins and the breast-bones. 7 Now, verily, He [who thus creates man in the first instance] is well able to bring him back [to life] 8 The Day when secrets will be put on trial, 9 [man] will have no power, and no helper. 10 By the Firmament which returns (in its round), 11 and the earth, bursting forth with plants! 12 Most surely it is a decisive word, 13 and it is certainly not a jest. 14 They are hatching up a plot, 15 and so am I: 16 Therefore give them some respite – give them some time. 17