Surah 81
Surah At-Taqwir: The Folding Up
Revealed at Makkah
With the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Rewarding
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WHEN the sun is folded up,
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And when the stars are dust-covered,
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and when the mountains are made to pass away,
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and when the ten-month-gravid camels are forsaken;
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and when the wild beasts are gathered together,
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and when the seas are made to swell,
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and when the souls are united,
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and when the girl-child buried alive is questioned:
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“For what sin she was killed?”
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And when the sheets are spread open;
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and when the heaven is uncovered,
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and when hell-Fire is kindled up;
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and when the Garden is brought near,—
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soul will know what it has brought forward.
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Therefore no, I call to witness the planets,
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moving on, disappearing.
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And the night when it departs,
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and the dawn when it brightens;
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verily this is indeed the word of a noble Rasul—
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the possessor of strength, established in presence of the Master of the Throne,—