English - Chapter 86 - At-Tariq

CONSIDER the heavens and that which comes in the night

And what could make thee conceive what it is that comes in the night

It is the star that pierces through [life's] darkness

[for] no human being has ever been left unguarded

LET MAN, then, observe out of what he has been created

he has been created out of a seminal fluid

issuing from between the loins [of man] and the pelvic arch [of woman]

Now, verily, He [who thus creates man in the first instance] is well able to bring him back [to life]

on the Day when all secrets will be laid bare

Consider the heavens, ever-revolving

and the earth, bursting forth with plants

BEHOLD, this [divine writ] is indeed a word that between truth and falsehood

and is no idle tale

Behold, they [who refuse to accept it] devise many a false argument [to disprove its truth]

but I shall bring all their scheming to nought

Let, then, the deniers of the truth have their will: let them have their will for a little while