Nor need I swear by the
self-accusing soul!
Does man think that we
shall not collect his bones? Able are we to arrange his finger tips!
[5] Nay, but man wishes to
be wicked henceforward! he asks, When is the resurrection day?
But when the sight shall be
dazed, and the moon be eclipsed, and the sun and the moon be together, [10] and
man shall say upon that day, 'Where is a place to flee to?'-nay, no refuge! and
to thy Lord that day is the sure settlement: He will inform man on that day of
what He has sent forward or delayed!
Nay, man is an evidence
against himself, [15] and even if he thrusts forward his excuses - .
Do not move thy tongue
thereby to hasten it 1. It is for us to collect it and to read it;
and when we read it then follow its reading. And again it is for us to explain
it.
[20] Nay, indeed, but ye
love the transient life, and ye neglect the hereafter!
Faces on that day shall be
bright, gazing on their Lord!
And faces on that day shall
be dismal!
[25] Thou wilt think that a
back-breaking calamity has happened to them!
Nay, but when the [soul]
comes up into the throat, and it is said, 'Who will charm it back?' and he will
think that it is his parting [hour]. And leg shall be pressed on leg 2; [30] unto thy Lord on that day shall the driving be.
For he did not
believe 3 and did not pray; but
he said it was a lie, and
turned his back! Then he went to his people haughtily-woe to thee, and woe to
thee! again woe to thee, and woe to thee!
Does man think that he
shall be left to himself?
Wasn't 1 he a clot of emitted seed? Then he
was congealed blood, and (God) created him, and fashioned him, and made of him
pairs, male and female.
[35] Is not He able to
quicken the dead?