Chapter 100, Al-'Adiyat [ The Courser ]
- Seeking refuge with Allah from the banished Satan.I begin in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful.
- 1. By the (Steeds) that run, with panting (breath),
- 2. And strike sparks of fire,
- 3. And push home the charge in the morning,
- 4. And raise the dust in clouds the while,
- 5. And penetrate forthwith into the midst (of the foe) en masse;-
- 6. Truly man is, to his Lord, ungrateful;
- 7. And to that (fact) he bears witness (by his deeds);
- 8. And violent is he in his love of wealth.
- 9. Does he not know,- when that which is in the graves is scattered abroad
- 10. And that which is (locked up) in (human) breasts is made manifest-
- 11. That their Lord had been Well-acquainted with them, (even to) that Day?