{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/yaq/yaq081.htm","path":"isl/yaq/yaq081.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/yaq/yaq081.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\nIn the name of God, Most Gracious,\n Most Merciful\n1. When the sun\n (With its spacious light)\n Is folded up;\n2. When the stars\n Fall, losing their lustre;\n3. When the mountains vanish\n (Like a mirage);\n4. When the she-camels,\n Ten months with young,\n Are left untended;\n5. When the wild beasts\n Are herded together\n(In human habitations);\n6. When the oceans\n Boil over with a swell;\n7. When the souls\n Are sorted out,\n (Being joined, like with like);\n8. When the female (infant),\n Buried alive, is questioned\u2014\n9. For what crime\n She was killed;\n10. When the Scrolls\n Are laid open;\n11. When the World on High\n Is unveiled;\n12. When the Blazing Fire\n Is kindled to fierce heat;\n13. And when the Garden\n Is brought near;\u2014\n14. (Then) shall each soul know\n What it has put forward.\n15. So verily I call\n To witness the Planets\u2014\n That recede,\n16. Go straight, or hide;\n17. And the Night\n As it dissipates;\n18. And the Dawn\n As it breathes away\n The darkness;\u2014\n19. Verily this is the word\n Of a most honourable Messenger,\n20. Endued with Power,\n With rank before\n The Lord of the Throne,\n21. With authority there,\n (And) faithful to his trust.\n22. And (O people!)\n Your Companion is not\n One possessed;\n23. And without doubt he saw him\n In the clear horizon.\n24. Neither doth he withhold\n Grudgingly a knowledge\n Of the Unseen.\n25. Nor is it the word\n Of an evil spirit accursed!\n26. When whither go ye?\n27. Verily this is no less\n Than a Message\n To (all) the Worlds:\n28. (With profit) to whoever\n Among you wills\n To go straight:\n29. But ye shall not will\n Except as God wills,\u2014\n The Cherisher of the Worlds.","title":"The Holy Quran: S\u016bra LXXXI. Takw\u012br, or the Fold...","type":"page"}