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Asad, Surah 75: The Resurrection (Al-Qiyaama)

Surahs

[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?

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