سُورَةُ الطَّارِقِ
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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ وَٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلطَّارِقِ
CONSIDER the heavens and that which comes in the night!
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وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلطَّارِقُ
And what could make thee conceive what it is that comes in the night?
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ٱلنَّجْمُ ٱلثَّاقِبُ
It is the star that pierces through [life's] darkness:
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إِن كُلُّ نَفْسٍۢ لَّمَّا عَلَيْهَا حَافِظٌۭ
[for] no human being has ever been left unguarded.
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فَلْيَنظُرِ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مِمَّ خُلِقَ
LET MAN, then, observe out of what he has been created:
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خُلِقَ مِن مَّآءٍۢ دَافِقٍۢ
he has been created out of a seminal fluid
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يَخْرُجُ مِنۢ بَيْنِ ٱلصُّلْبِ وَٱلتَّرَآئِبِ
issuing from between the loins [of man] and the pelvic arch [of woman].
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إِنَّهُۥ عَلَىٰ رَجْعِهِۦ لَقَادِرٌۭ
Now, verily, He [who thus creates man in the first instance] is well able to bring him back [to life]
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يَوْمَ تُبْلَى ٱلسَّرَآئِرُ
on the Day when all secrets will be laid bare,
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فَمَا لَهُۥ مِن قُوَّةٍۢ وَلَا نَاصِرٍۢ
and [man] will have neither strength nor helper!
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وَٱلسَّمَآءِ ذَاتِ ٱلرَّجْعِ
Consider the heavens, ever-revolving,
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وَٱلْأَرْضِ ذَاتِ ٱلصَّدْعِ
and the earth, bursting forth with plants!
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إِنَّهُۥ لَقَوْلٌۭ فَصْلٌۭ
BEHOLD, this [divine writ] is indeed a word that between truth and falsehood,
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وَمَا هُوَ بِٱلْهَزْلِ
and is no idle tale.
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إِنَّهُمْ يَكِيدُونَ كَيْدًۭا
Behold, they [who refuse to accept it] devise many a false argument [to disprove its truth];
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وَأَكِيدُ كَيْدًۭا
but I shall bring all their scheming to nought.
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فَمَهِّلِ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ أَمْهِلْهُمْ رُوَيْدًۢا
Let, then, the deniers of the truth have their will: let them have their will for a little while.
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