: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.
