81. Surah At-Takwir, English Translation

and when the stars fall down,

and when the mountains are blown away,

and when pregnant camels are left untended,¹

and when wild beasts are gathered together,¹

and when the seas are set on fire,¹

and when the souls ˹and their bodies˺ are paired ˹once more˺,

and when baby girls, buried alive, are asked

for what crime they were put to death,¹

and when the records ˹of deeds˺ are laid open,

and when the sky is stripped away,

and when the Hellfire is fiercely flared up,

and when Paradise is brought near—

˹on that Day˺ each soul will know what ˹deeds˺ it has brought along.

I do swear by the receding stars

which travel and hide,¹

and the night as it falls

and the day as it breaks!¹

Indeed, this ˹Quran˺ is the Word of ˹Allah delivered by Gabriel,˺ a noble messenger-angel,

full of power, held in honour by the Lord of the Throne,

obeyed there ˹in heaven˺, and trustworthy.

And your fellow man¹ is not insane.

And he did see that ˹angel˺ on the clear horizon,¹

and he does not withhold ˹what is revealed to him of˺ the unseen.

And this ˹Quran˺ is not the word of an outcast devil.¹

So what ˹other˺ path would you take?

Surely this ˹Quran˺ is only a reminder to the whole world—

to whoever of you wills to take the Straight Way.

But you cannot will ˹to do so˺, except by the Will of Allah, the Lord of all worlds.