The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
By heaven and the night-star! 1 what do you know what the night-visitor is? 2 - The piercing Star! 3 There is no soul but has a protector over it. 4 So let man consider of what he was created. 5 he has been created out of a seminal fluid 6 issuing from between the backbone and the breastbone: 7 Indeed Allah is Able to return him. 8 on the Day when consciences are examined, 9 and he shall have no strength, no helper. 10 I swear by the raingiving heavens, 11 And [by] the earth which cracks open, 12 That this (Qur'an) is a decisive word 13 and is not to be taken lightly. 14 They are hatching up a plot, 15 And I plot a plot (against them). 16 So respite the unbelievers; delay with them awhile. 17