{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/palm/081.htm","path":"isl/palm/081.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/palm/081.htm","text":"THE CHAPTER OF THE FOLDING UP\n(LXXXI. Mecca.)\nIN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.\nWhen the sun is folded up,\nAnd when the stars do fall,\nAnd when the mountains are moved,\nAnd when the she-camels ten months gone with young\nshall be neglected,\nAnd when the beasts shall be crowded together,\nAnd when the seas shall surge up,\nAnd when souls shall be paired with bodies,\nAnd when the child who was buried alive shall be asked\nfor what sin she was slain,\nAnd when the pages shall be spread out,\nAnd when the heaven shall be flayed,\nAnd when hell shall be set ablaze,\nAnd when Paradise shall be brought nigh,\nThe soul shall know what it has produced!\nI need not swear by the stars that slink back, moving swiftly, slinking into their dens!\nNor by the night when darkness draws on!\nNor by the morn when it first breathes up!\nVerily, it is the speech of a noble apostle, mighty, standing sure with the Lord of the throne, obeyed and trusty too!\nYour comrade is not mad; he saw him on the plain horizon, nor does he grudge to communicate the unseen.\nNor is it the speech of a pelted devil.\nThen whither do ye go?\nIt is but a reminder to the worlds, to whomsoever of you pleases to go straight:- but ye will not please, except God, the Lord of the world, should please.","title":"81. at-Takwir: The Cessation (tr. Palmer)","type":"page"}