CONSIDER the heavens and that which comes in the night
And what could make thee conceive what it is that comes in the night
It is the star that pierces through [life's] darkness
[for] no human being has ever been left unguarded
LET MAN, then, observe out of what he has been created
he has been created out of a seminal fluid
issuing from between the loins [of man] and the pelvic arch [of woman]
Now, verily, He [who thus creates man in the first instance] is well able to bring him back [to life]
on the Day when all secrets will be laid bare
and [man] will have neither strength nor helper
Consider the heavens, ever-revolving
and the earth, bursting forth with plants
BEHOLD, this [divine writ] is indeed a word that between truth and falsehood
and is no idle tale
Behold, they [who refuse to accept it] devise many a false argument [to disprove its truth]
but I shall bring all their scheming to nought
Let, then, the deniers of the truth have their will: let them have their will for a little while