The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
I swear by the heaven and the comer by night; 1 and what could make you know what it is that comes in the night? 2 It is the piercing star. 3 No soul is there but hath over it a watcher. 4 So let man consider from what he is created. 5 he has been created out of a seminal fluid 6 issuing between the loins and the breast-bones. 7 Surely, He is Able to bring him back, 8 On the Day when man's deepest secrets shall be put to the test 9 and [man] will have neither strength nor helper! 10 By the Firmament which returns (in its round), 11 And the earth which splits (with the growth of trees and plants), 12 Indeed, the Qur'an is a decisive statement, 13 it is no merriment. 14 They are devising guile, 15 And I (too) am planning a plan. 16 So grant the unbelievers a respite: let them alone for a while. 17