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75. Al-Qiyamah - The Resurrection
| 1 | I CALL TO WITNESS the Day of Resurrection, |
| 2 | And I call the reprehensive soul to witness: |
| 3 | Does man think We shall not put his bones together? |
| 4 | Surely We are able to reform even his finger-tips. |
| 5 | Yet man is sceptical of what is right before him. |
| 6 | He asks: "When will the Day of Resurrection be?" |
| 7 | Yet when the eyes are dazzled, |
| 8 | The moon eclipsed, |
| 9 | And the sun and moon are conjoined, |
| 10 | That day man will say: "Where can I find escape?" |
| 11 | Never so, for there will be no escape. |
| 12 | With your Lord alone will be the retreat on that day. |
| 13 | Then man will be told what he had sent ahead (of good) and what he had left behind. |
| 14 | In fact man is a witness against himself, |
| 15 | Whatever the excuses he may offer. |
| 16 | Do not forestall (the revelation before its completion) by acting in haste. |
| 17 | Surely its collection and recitation are Our responsibility. |
| 18 | So, as We recite it, follow its reading. |
| 19 | The exposition of its meaning surely rests on Us. |
| 20 | But no. You love this transient life, |
| 21 | And neglect the Hereafter. |
| 22 | How many faces will be refulgent on that Day, |
| 23 | Waiting for their Lord. |
| 24 | And how many faces on that Day will be woe-begone |
| 25 | Fearing that a great disaster is going to befall them. |
| 26 | Never so, for when life withdraws into the clavicula, |
| 27 | And it is asked: "Is there any reciter of charms and amulets?" |
| 28 | He will then realise it is the parting, |
| 29 | And anguish will be heaped upon anguish: |
| 30 | To your Lord then will be the driving. |
| 31 | For he neither believed nor prayed, |
| 32 | But only disavowed and turned away; |
| 33 | Then he strutted back to his people. |
| 34 | Alas the woe for you, alas! |
| 35 | Alas, the woe for you! |
| 36 | Does man think that he will be left alone to himself, free? |
| 37 | Was he not an emitted drop of semen, |
| 38 | Then formed into an embryo? Then He fashioned, shaped and proportioned |
| 39 | And assigned it sexes, male and female. |
| 40 | Cannot such as He bring the dead to life? |