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[1] NAY! I call to witness the Day of Resurrection!
[2] But nay! I call to witness the accusing voice of man's own conscience!
[3] Does man think that We cannot [resurrect him and] bring his bones together again?
[4] Yea indeed, We are able to make whole his very finger-tips!
[5] None the less man chooses to deny what lies ahead of him,
[6] asking [derisively], "When is that Resurrection Day to be?"
[7] But [on that Day,] when the eyesight is by fear confounded,
[8] and the moon is darkened,
[9] and the sun and the moon are brought together
[10] on that Day will man exclaim "Whither to flee?"
[11] But nay: no refuge [for thee, O man]!
[12] With thy Sustainer, on that Day, the journey's end will be!
[13] Man will be apprised, on that Day, of what he has done and what he has left undone:
[14] nay, but man shall against himself be an eye-witness,
[15] even though he may veil himself in excuses.
[16] MOVE NOT thy tongue in haste, [repeating the words of the revelation:]
[17] 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].
[18] Thus, when We recite it, follow thou its wording [with all thy mind]:
[19] and then, behold, it will be for Us to make its meaning clear.
[20] NAY, but [most of] you love this fleeting life,
[21] and give no thought to the life to come [and to Judgment Day]!
[22] Some faces will on that Day be bright with happiness,
[23] looking up to their Sustainer;
[24] and some faces will on that Day be overcast with despair,
[25] knowing that a crushing calamity is about to befall them.
[26] NAY, but when [the last breath] comes up to the throat [of a dying man],
[27] and people ask, "Is there any wizard [that could save him]?"
[28] the while he [himself] knows that this is the parting,
[29] and is enwrapped in the pangs of death
[30] at that time towards thy Sustainer does he feel impelled to turn!
[31] [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],
[32] but, on the contrary, he gave the lie to the truth and turned away [from it],
[33] and then went arrogantly back to what he had come from.
[34] [And yet, O man, thine end comes hourly] nearer unto thee, and nearer –
[35] and ever nearer unto thee, and nearer!
[36] DOES MAN, then, think that he is to be left to himself to go about at will?
[37] Was he not once a [mere] drop of sperm that had been spilt,
[38] and thereafter became a germ-cell - whereupon He created and formed [it] in accordance with what [it] was meant to be,
[39] and fashioned out of it the two sexes, the male and the female?
[40] Is not He, then; able to bring the dead back to life?