English - Chapter 75 - Al-Qiyamah

NAY! I call to witness the Day of Resurrection

But nay! I call to witness the accusing voice of man's own conscience

Does man think that We cannot [resurrect him and] bring his bones together again

Yea indeed, We are able to make whole his very finger-tips

None the less man chooses to deny what lies ahead of him

asking [derisively], "When is that Resurrection Day to be

But [on that Day,] when the eyesight is by fear confounded

and the moon is darkened

and the sun and the moon are brought together

on that Day will man exclaim "Whither to flee

But nay: no refuge [for thee, O man]

With thy Sustainer, on that Day, the journey's end will be

nay, but man shall against himself be an eye-witness

even though he may veil himself in excuses

MOVE NOT thy tongue in haste, [repeating the words of the revelation]

for, behold, it is for Us to gather it [in thy heart,] and to cause it to be read [as it ought to be read]

Thus, when We recite it, follow thou its wording [with all thy mind]

and then, behold, it will be for Us to make its meaning clear

NAY, but [most of] you love this fleeting life

and give no thought to the life to come [and to Judgment Day]

Some faces will on that Day be bright with happiness

looking up to their Sustainer

and some faces will on that Day be overcast with despair

knowing that a crushing calamity is about to befall them

NAY, but when [the last breath] comes up to the throat [of a dying man]

and people ask, "Is there any wizard [that could save him]

the while he [himself] knows that this is the parting

and is enwrapped in the pangs of death

at that time towards thy Sustainer does he feel impelled to turn

Useless, though, will be his repentance: for [as long as he was alive] he did not accept the truth, nor did he pray [for enlightenment]

but, on the contrary, he gave the lie to the truth and turned away [from it]

and then went arrogantly back to what he had come from

[And yet, O man, thine end comes hourly] nearer unto thee, and nearer –

and ever nearer unto thee, and nearer

DOES MAN, then, think that he is to be left to himself to go about at will

Was he not once a [mere] drop of sperm that had been spilt

and thereafter became a germ-cell - whereupon He created and formed [it] in accordance with what [it] was meant to be

and fashioned out of it the two sexes, the male and the female

Is not He, then; able to bring the dead back to life