81:1 إِذَا الشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْ
When the sun (with its spacious light) is folded up;
81:2 وَإِذَا النُّجُومُ انكَدَرَتْ
When the stars fall, losing their lustre;
81:3 وَإِذَا الْجِبَالُ
سُيِّرَتْ
When the mountains vanish (like a mirage);
81:4 وَإِذَا الْعِشَارُ عُطِّلَتْ
When the she-camels, ten months with young, are left untended;
81:5 وَإِذَا الْوُحُوشُ حُشِرَتْ
When the wild beasts are herded together (in the human habitations);
81:6 وَإِذَا الْبِحَارُ سُجِّرَتْ
When the oceans boil over with a swell;
81:7 وَإِذَا النُّفُوسُ زُوِّجَتْ
When the souls are sorted out, (being joined, like with like);
81:8 وَإِذَا
الْمَوْؤُودَةُ سُئِلَتْ
When the female (infant), buried alive, is questioned -
81:9 بِأَيِّ ذَنبٍ قُتِلَتْ
For what crime she was killed;
81:10 وَإِذَا الصُّحُفُ نُشِرَتْ
When the scrolls are laid open;
81:11 وَإِذَا السَّمَاء كُشِطَتْ
When the world on High is unveiled;
81:12 وَإِذَا الْجَحِيمُ سُعِّرَتْ
When the Blazing Fire is kindled to fierce heat;
81:13 وَإِذَا الْجَنَّةُ
أُزْلِفَتْ
And when the Garden is brought near;-
81:14 عَلِمَتْ نَفْسٌ مَّا أَحْضَرَتْ
(Then) shall each soul know what it has put forward.
81:15 فَلَا أُقْسِمُ بِالْخُنَّسِ
So verily I call to witness the planets - that recede,
81:16 الْجَوَارِ الْكُنَّسِ
Go straight, or hide;
81:17 وَاللَّيْلِ إِذَا عَسْعَسَ
And the Night as it dissipates;
81:18 وَالصُّبْحِ إِذَا تَنَفَّسَ
And the Dawn as it breathes away the darkness;-
81:19 إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلُ رَسُولٍ كَرِيمٍ
Verily this is the word of a most honourable Messenger,
81:20 ذِي قُوَّةٍ عِندَ ذِي الْعَرْشِ مَكِينٍ
Endued with Power, with rank before the Lord of the Throne,
81:21 مُطَاعٍ
ثَمَّ أَمِينٍ
With authority there, (and) faithful to his trust.
81:22 وَمَا صَاحِبُكُم بِمَجْنُونٍ
And (O people!) your companion is not one possessed;
81:23 وَلَقَدْ رَآهُ بِالْأُفُقِ الْمُبِينِ
And without doubt he saw him in the clear horizon.
81:24 وَمَا هُوَ عَلَى الْغَيْبِ بِضَنِينٍ
Neither doth he withhold grudgingly a knowledge of the Unseen.
81:25 وَمَا هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شَيْطَانٍ رَجِيمٍ
Nor is it the word of an evil spirit accursed.
81:26 فَأَيْنَ تَذْهَبُونَ
When whither go ye?
81:27 إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ لِّلْعَالَمِينَ
Verily this is no less than a Message to (all) the Worlds:
81:28 لِمَن شَاء مِنكُمْ أَن
يَسْتَقِيمَ
(With profit) to whoever among you wills to go straight:
81:29 وَمَا تَشَاؤُونَ إِلَّا أَن يَشَاءَ اللَّهُ رَبُّ الْعَالَمِينَ
But ye shall not will except as Allah wills,- the Cherisher of the Worlds.