By the sky, by the nightly visitor
(and what will show you what is the nightly visitor
It is the brilliant star)
there is a guard over every soul
So let man consider from what he was created
He was created from an effusing fluid
which issues from between the loins and the breast-bones
Indeed He is able to bring him back [after death]
on the day when the secrets are examined
and he shall have neither power nor helper
By the resurgent sky
by the furrowed earth
it is indeed a decisive word
and it is not a jest
Indeed they are devising a stratagem
and I [too] am devising a plan
So respite the faithless; give them a gentle respite