The Holy Qur'an: At-Takwir (The Overthrowing)

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Legend: R = Revelational Circumstance | X = Abrogated | C = Commentary
E = Contradiction | Mc = Meccan Surah | Md = Medinan Surah | No. = Chronological Order

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, 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);^C

⁴ When the she-camels, ten months with young, are left untended;

⁵ When the wild beasts are herded together (in the human habitations);^C

⁶ When the oceans boil over with a swell;

⁷ When the souls are sorted out, (being joined, like with like);^C

⁸ When the female (infant), buried alive, is questioned -

⁹ For what crime she was killed;^C

¹⁰ When the scrolls are laid open;^C

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:^X

²⁹ But ye shall not will except as God wills,- the Cherisher of the Worlds.

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