1. By the Day of Resurrection

2. And by the self-reproaching soul!

3. Does man think We shall not
put his bones back together?

4. In fact, We can reshape his very fingertips.

5. Yet man wants to deny what is ahead of him:

6. he says, ‘So, when will this
Day of Resurrection be?’

7. When eyes are dazzled

8. and the moon eclipsed,

9. when the sun and the moon are brought together,

10. on that Day man will say, ‘Where is the escape!’

11. Truly, there is no refuge:

12. they will all return to your Lord on that Day.

13. On that Day, man will be told what he put first and what he has kept back.

14. Truly, man is a clear witness against himself,

15. despite all the excuses he may put forward.

16. [Prophet], do not rush your tongue in an attempt to hasten the Revelation:

17. We shall make sure of its safe collection and recitation.

18. When We have recited it, repeat the recitation

19. and We shall make it clear.

20. Truly you love this fleeting world

21. and neglect the life to come.

22. On that Day there will be radiant faces,

23. looking towards their Lord,

24. and on that Day there will be the
sad and despairing faces

25. of those who realize that
a great calamity is about to befall them.

26. Truly, when the soul reaches the collarbone
(angels pull souls out from the throat);

27. when it is said, ‘Could any
charm-healer save him now?’;

28. when he knows it is the final parting;

29. when his legs are brought together:

30. on that day he will be driven
towards your Lord.

31. He neither believed nor prayed,

32. but denied the truth and turned away,

33. walking back to his people
with a conceited swagger.

34. Closer and closer it comes to you.

35. Closer and closer still.

36. Does man think he will be left alone?

37. Was he not just a drop of spilled-out sperm,

38. which became a clinging form,
which Allah shaped in due proportion,

39. fashioning from it the two sexes,
male and female?

40. Does He, who can do this,
not have the power to bring
the dead back to life?