When the sun with its spacious light is folded up
When the stars fall, losing their lustre
When the mountains vanish
When the camels, ten months with young, are left untended
When the wild beasts are herded together
When the oceans boil over with a swell
When the souls are sorted out,
When the female buried alive, is questioned -For what crime she was killed
When the scrolls are laid open
When the world on High is unveiled
When the Blazing Fire is kindled to fierce heat
And when the Garden is brought near;
Then shall each soul know what it has put forward.
So verily I call to witness the planets — that recede,
Go straight, or hide;
And the Night as it dissipates;
And the Dawn as it breathes away the darkness;
Verily this is the word of a most honorable Messenger,
Endued with Power, with rank before the Lord of the Throne,
With authority there and faithful to his trust.
And your companion is not one possessed;
And without doubt he saw him in the clear horizon.
Neither doth he withhold grudgingly a knowledge of the Unseen.
Nor is it the word of an evil spirit accursed.
When whither go ye?
Verily this is no less than a Message to all the Worlds
to whoever among you wills to go straight
But ye shall not will except as Allah wills
The Cherisher of the Worlds
(AT-TAKWIR 81)
