Chapter 81, At-Takwir [ The Overthrowing ]
- Seeking refuge with Allah from the banished Satan.I begin in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful.
- 1. When the sun (with its spacious light) is folded up;
- 2. When the stars fall, losing their lustre;
- 3. When the mountains vanish (like a mirage);
- 4. When the she-camels, ten months with young, are left untended;
- 5. When the wild beasts are herded together (in the human habitations);
- 6. When the oceans boil over with a swell;
- 7. When the souls are sorted out, (being joined, like with like);
- 8. When the female (infant), buried alive, is questioned -
- 9. For what crime she was killed;
- 10. When the scrolls are laid open;
- 11. When the world on High is unveiled;
- 12. When the Blazing Fire is kindled to fierce heat;
- 13. And when the Garden is brought near;-
- 14. (Then) shall each soul know what it has put forward.
- 15. So verily I call to witness the planets - that recede,
- 16. Go straight, or hide;
- 17. And the Night as it dissipates;
- 18. And the Dawn as it breathes away the darkness;-
- 19. Verily this is the word of a most honourable Messenger,
- 20. Endued with Power, with rank before the Lord of the Throne,
- 21. With authority there, (and) faithful to his trust.
- 22. And (O people!) your companion is not one possessed;
- 23. And without doubt he saw him in the clear horizon.
- 24. Neither doth he withhold grudgingly a knowledge of the Unseen.
- 25. Nor is it the word of an evil spirit accursed.
- 26. When whither go ye?
- 27. Verily this is no less than a Message to (all) the Worlds:
- 28. (With profit) to whoever among you wills to go straight:
- 29. But ye shall not will except as Allah wills,- the Cherisher of the Worlds.