Chapters from the Koran.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| Mecca Suras |
| | | The Chapter of the Resurrection |
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| IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God. | 1 |
| I need not swear by the resurrection day! | 2 |
| Nor need I swear by the self-accusing soul! | 3 |
| Does man think that we shall not collect his bones? Able are we to arrange his finger tips! | 4 |
| Nay, but man wishes to be wicked henceforward! he asks, When is the resurrection day? | 5 |
| But when the sight shall be dazed, and the moon be eclipsed, and the sun and the moon be together, 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! | 6 |
| Nay, man is an evidence against himself, and even if he thrusts forward his excuses—. | 7 |
| 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. | 8 |
| Nay, indeed, but ye love the transient life, and ye neglect the hereafter! | 9 |
| Faces on that day shall be bright, gazing on their Lord! | 10 |
| And faces on that day shall be dismal! | 11 |
| Thou wilt think that a back-breaking calamity has happened to them! | 12 |
| 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 unto thy Lord on that day shall the driving be. | 13 |
| 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! | 14 |
| Does man think that he shall be left to himself? | 15 |
| Wasn’t 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. | 16 |
| Is not He able to quicken the dead? | 17 |
| | | Note 1. I. e. the revelation. The words are addressed to Mohammed by the angel Gabriel. [back] |
| Note 2. I. e. in the death struggle. [back] |
| Note 3. Or did not give in charity. [back] |
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