Surah At-Taqwir: The Folding Up

Revealed at Makkah



With the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Rewarding


81:1
WHEN the sun is folded up,


81:2
And when the stars are dust-covered,


81:3
and when the mountains are made to pass away,


81:4
and when the ten-month-gravid camels are forsaken;


81:5
and when the wild beasts are gathered together,


81:6
and when the seas are made to swell,


81:7
and when the souls are united,


81:8
and when the girl-child buried alive is questioned:


81:9
“For what sin she was killed?”


81:10
And when the sheets are spread open;


81:11
and when the heaven is uncovered,


81:12
and when hell-Fire is kindled up;


81:13
and when the Garden is brought near,—


81:14
soul will know what it has brought forward.


81:15
Therefore no, I call to witness the planets,


81:16
moving on, disappearing.


81:17
And the night when it departs,


81:18
and the dawn when it brightens;


81:19
verily this is indeed the word of a noble Rasul—


81:20
the possessor of strength, established in presence of the Master of the Throne,—