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1.  *     Nay! I swear by the day of resurrection.
 
2.  *     Nay! I swear by the self-accusing soul.
 
3.  *     Does man think that We shall not gather his bones?
 
4.  *     Yea! We are able to make complete his very fingertips
 
5.  *     Nay! man desires to give the lie to what is before him.
 
6.  *     He asks: When is the day of resurrection?
 
7.  *     So when the sight becomes dazed,
 
8.  *     And the moon becomes dark,
 
9.  *     And the sun and the moon are brought together,
 
10.  *     Man shall say on that day: Whither to fly to?
 
11.  *     By no means! there shall be no place of refuge!
 
12.  *     With your Lord alone shall on that day be the place of rest.
 
13.  *     Man shall on that day be informed of what he sent before and (what he) put off.
 
14.  *     Nay! man is evidence against himself,
 
15.  *     Though he puts forth his excuses.
 
16.  *     Do not move your tongue with it to make haste with it,
 
17.  *     Surely on Us (devolves) the collecting of it and the reciting of it.
 
18.  *     Therefore when We have recited it, follow its recitation.
 
19.  *     Again on Us (devolves) the explaining of it.
 
20.  *     Nay! But you love the present life,
 
21.  *     And neglect the hereafter.
 
22.  *     (Some) faces on that day shall be bright,
 
23.  *     Looking to their Lord.
 
24.  *     And (other) faces on that day shall be gloomy,
 
25.  *     Knowing that there will be made to befall them some great calamity.
 
26.  *     Nay! When it comes up to the throat,
 
27.  *     And it is said: Who will be a magician?
 
28.  *     And he is sure that it is the (hour of) parting
 
29.  *     And affliction is combined with affliction;
 
30.  *     To your Lord on that day shall be the driving.
 
31.  *     So he did not accept the truth, nor did he pray,
 
32.  *     But called the truth a lie and turned back,
 
33.  *     Then he went to his followers, walking away in haughtiness.
 
34.  *     Nearer to you (is destruction) and nearer,
 
35.  *     Again (consider how) nearer to you and nearer.
 
36.  *     Does man think that he is to be left to wander without an aim?
 
37.  *     Was he not a small seed in the seminal elements,
 
38.  *     Then he was a clot of blood, so He created (him) then made (him) perfect.
 
39.  *     Then He made of him two kinds, the male and the female.
 
40.  *     Is not He able to give life to the dead?