The Morning Star, The Nightcomer — Muhammad Asad Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The Comer by Night

وَالسَّمَاءِ وَالطَّارِقِ

CONSIDER the heavens and that which comes in the night

Waalssama-i waalttariqi

وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الطَّارِقُ

And what could make thee conceive what it is that comes in the night

Wama adraka ma alttariqu

النَّجْمُ الثَّاقِبُ

It is the star that pierces through [life's] darkness

Alnnajmu alththaqibu

إِن كُلُّ نَفْسٍ لَّمَّا عَلَيْهَا حَافِظٌ

[for] no human being has ever been left unguarded

In kullu nafsin lamma AAalayha hafithun

فَلْيَنظُرِ الْإِنسَانُ مِمَّ خُلِقَ

LET MAN, then, observe out of what he has been created

Falyanthuri al-insanu mimma khuliqa

خُلِقَ مِن مَّاءٍ دَافِقٍ

he has been created out of a seminal flui

Khuliqa min ma-in dafiqin

يَخْرُجُ مِن بَيْنِ الصُّلْبِ وَالتَّرَائِبِ

issuing from between the loins [of man] and the pelvic arch [of woman]

Yakhruju min bayni alssulbi waalttara-ibi

إِنَّهُ عَلَىٰ رَجْعِهِ لَقَادِرٌ

Now, verily, He [who thus creates man in the first instance] is well able to bring him back [to life]

Innahu AAala rajAAihi laqadirun

يَوْمَ تُبْلَى السَّرَائِرُ

on the Day when all secrets will be laid bare

Yawma tubla alssara-iru

فَمَا لَهُ مِن قُوَّةٍ وَلَا نَاصِرٍ

and [man] will have neither strength nor helper

Fama lahu min quwwatin wala nasirin

وَالسَّمَاءِ ذَاتِ الرَّجْعِ

Consider the heavens, ever-revolving

Waalssama-i thati alrrajAAi

وَالْأَرْضِ ذَاتِ الصَّدْعِ

and the earth, bursting forth with plants

Waal-ardi thati alssadAAi

إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلٌ فَصْلٌ

BEHOLD, this [divine writ] is indeed a word that between truth and falsehood

Innahu laqawlun faslun

وَمَا هُوَ بِالْهَزْلِ

and is no idle tale

Wama huwa bialhazli

إِنَّهُمْ يَكِيدُونَ كَيْدًا

Behold, they [who refuse to accept it] devise many a false argument [to disprove its truth]

Innahum yakeedoona kaydan

وَأَكِيدُ كَيْدًا

but I shall bring all their scheming to nought

Waakeedu kaydan

فَمَهِّلِ الْكَافِرِينَ أَمْهِلْهُمْ رُوَيْدًا

Let, then, the deniers of the truth have their will: let them have their will for a little while

Famahhili alkafireena amhilhum ruwaydan

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