بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ إِذَا الشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْ

When the sun shall be wound round,

وَإِذَا النُّجُومُ انْكَدَرَتْ

And when the stars shall dart down,

وَإِذَا الْجِبَالُ سُيِّرَتْ

And when the mountains shall be made to pass away,

وَإِذَا الْعِشَارُ عُطِّلَتْ

And when the she-camels big with young shall be abandoned,

وَإِذَا الْوُحُوشُ حُشِرَتْ

And when the wild beasts shall be gathered together,

وَإِذَا الْبِحَارُ سُجِّرَتْ

And when the seas shall be filled,

وَإِذَا النُّفُوسُ زُوِّجَتْ

And when the souls he paired,

وَإِذَا الْمَوْءُودَةُ سُئِلَتْ

And when the girl buried alive shall be asked:

بِأَيِّ ذَنْبٍ قُتِلَتْ

For what sin she was slain.

وَإِذَا الصُّحُفُ نُشِرَتْ

And when the Writs shall be lain open,

وَإِذَا السَّمَاءُ كُشِطَتْ

And when the heaven shall be stripped,

وَإِذَا الْجَحِيمُ سُعِّرَتْ

And when the Scorch shall be made to blaze,

وَإِذَا الْجَنَّةُ أُزْلِفَتْ

And when the Garden shall be brought nigh,

عَلِمَتْ نَفْسٌ مَا أَحْضَرَتْ

Then every soul shall know that which it: hath presented.

فَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِالْخُنَّسِ

I swear by the receding stars.

الْجَوَارِ الْكُنَّسِ

Moving swiftly and hiding themselves,

وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا عَسْعَسَ

And by the night when it departeth,

وَالصُّبْحِ إِذَا تَنَفَّسَ

And by the morning when it shineth forth,

إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلُ رَسُولٍ كَرِيمٍ

Verily it is a Word brought by a messenger honoured,

ذِي قُوَّةٍ عِنْدَ ذِي الْعَرْشِ مَكِينٍ

Owner of strength, of established dignity with the Lord of the Throne.

مُطَاعٍ ثَمَّ أَمِينٍ

Obeyed one there; trustWorthy.

وَمَا صَاحِبُكُمْ بِمَجْنُونٍ

Nor is your companion distracted.

وَلَقَدْ رَآهُ بِالْأُفُقِ الْمُبِينِ

Assuredly he beheld him in the horizon manifest.

وَمَا هُوَ عَلَى الْغَيْبِ بِضَنِينٍ

And he is of the unseen not a tenacious concealer.

وَمَا هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شَيْطَانٍ رَجِيمٍ

Nor is it the word of a Satan accursed.

فَأَيْنَ تَذْهَبُونَ

Whither then go ye?

إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ لِلْعَالَمِينَ

This is naught but an Admonition Unto the worlds-

لِمَنْ شَاءَ مِنْكُمْ أَنْ يَسْتَقِيمَ

Unto whomsoever of you willeth to walk straight.

وَمَا تَشَاءُونَ إِلَّا أَنْ يَشَاءَ اللَّهُ رَبُّ الْعَالَمِينَ

And ye shall not will unless it be that Allah, the Lord of the worlds, willeth.