THE CHAPTER OF THE FOLDING UP
(LXXXI. Mecca.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God. When the sun is folded up,
And when the stars do fall,
And when the mountains are moved,
And when the she-camels ten months gone with young
shall be neglected,
And when the beasts shall be crowded together,
And when the seas shall surge up,
And when souls shall be paired with bodies,
And when the child who was buried alive shall be asked
for what sin she was slain,
And when the pages shall be spread…