I need not swear by the resurrection day
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
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
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
and even if he thrusts forward his excuses
Do not move thy tongue thereby to hasten it
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
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
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
unto thy Lord on that day shall the driving be
For he did not believes 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 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
Is not He able to quicken the dead