The Comet (Al-Taareq)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
By heaven and the night-star! 1 And what will explain to thee what the Night-Visitant is?- 2 - The piercing Star! 3 No soul is there but hath over it a watcher. 4 So man must consider from what he has been created. 5 He has been created from an ejected drop of fluid 6 Issuing from (the pelvis) between the backbone and the ribs. 7 Surely (Allah) is able to bring him back (to life)! 8 The Day when all the secrets (deeds, prayers, fasting, etc.) will be examined (as to their truth). 9 and he shall have no strength, no helper. 10 By the rotating heavens 11 and by the earth bursting with vegetation; 12 Most surely it is a decisive word, 13 it is no merriment. 14 They (disbelievers) plot every evil plan, 15 and I too am devising a guile. 16 So respite the unbelievers; delay with them awhile. 17