بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ وَالسَّمَاءِ وَالطَّارِقِ
By the sky, and by the nightly comer!
وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا الطَّارِقُ
What could let you know what the nightly comer is!
النَّجْمُ الثَّاقِبُ
(It is) the piercing star.
إِنْ كُلُّ نَفْسٍ لَمَّا عَلَيْهَا حَافِظٌ
For every soul there is a watcher.
فَلْيَنْظُرِ الْإِنْسَانُ مِمَّ خُلِقَ
Let the human reflect of what he is created.
خُلِقَ مِنْ مَاءٍ دَافِقٍ
He was created from ejaculated water
يَخْرُجُ مِنْ بَيْنِ الصُّلْبِ وَالتَّرَائِبِ
that issues from between the loins and the ribs.
إِنَّهُ عَلَىٰ رَجْعِهِ لَقَادِرٌ
Surely, He is Able to bring him back,
يَوْمَ تُبْلَى السَّرَائِرُ
on the Day when consciences are examined,
فَمَا لَهُ مِنْ قُوَّةٍ وَلَا نَاصِرٍ
when he will be helpless, with no supporter.
وَالسَّمَاءِ ذَاتِ الرَّجْعِ
By the sky with its returning rain,
وَالْأَرْضِ ذَاتِ الصَّدْعِ
and by the earth bursting with vegetation;
إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلٌ فَصْلٌ
this is indeed a Decisive Word,
وَمَا هُوَ بِالْهَزْلِ
it is not a jest.
إِنَّهُمْ يَكِيدُونَ كَيْدًا
They are cunningly devising,
وَأَكِيدُ كَيْدًا
and I am cunningly devising.
فَمَهِّلِ الْكَافِرِينَ أَمْهِلْهُمْ رُوَيْدًا
Therefore respite the unbelievers, and delay them for a while.