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التّكوير

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اِذَا الشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْۖ

iżasy-syamsu kuwwirat

WHEN THE SUN is folded up

وَاِذَا النُّجُوْمُ انْكَدَرَتْۖ

wa iżan-nujụmungkadarat

The stars turn dim and scatter

وَاِذَا الْجِبَالُ سُيِّرَتْۖ

wa iżal-jibālu suyyirat

The mountains made to move

وَاِذَا الْعِشَارُ عُطِّلَتْۖ

wa iżal-'isyāru 'uṭṭilat

The ten-month pregnant female camels are abandoned

وَاِذَا الْوُحُوْشُ حُشِرَتْۖ

wa iżal-wuḥụsyu ḥusyirat

The wild beasts stampede on the run

وَاِذَا الْبِحَارُ سُجِّرَتْۖ

wa iżal-biḥāru sujjirat

When the oceans surge and swell

وَاِذَا النُّفُوْسُ زُوِّجَتْۖ

wa iżan-nufụsu zuwwijat

When souls are reunited (with the bodies)

وَاِذَا الْمَوْءٗدَةُ سُىِٕلَتْۖ

wa iżal-mau`ụdatu su`ilat

And the little girl buried alive is asked

بِاَيِّ ذَنْۢبٍ قُتِلَتْۚ

bi`ayyi żambing qutilat

For what crime she was put to death;

وَاِذَا الصُّحُفُ نُشِرَتْۖ

wa iżaṣ-ṣuḥufu nusyirat

When the ledgers are laid open

وَاِذَا السَّمَاۤءُ كُشِطَتْۖ

wa iżas-samā`u kusyiṭat

The curtain drawn back from the skies

وَاِذَا الْجَحِيْمُ سُعِّرَتْۖ

wa iżal-jaḥīmu su''irat

When Hell is set ablaze

وَاِذَا الْجَنَّةُ اُزْلِفَتْۖ

wa iżal-jannatu uzlifat

And Paradise brought near

عَلِمَتْ نَفْسٌ مَّآ اَحْضَرَتْۗ

'alimat nafsum mā aḥḍarat

(Then) every soul will know what it had prepared (for itself).

فَلَآ اُقْسِمُ بِالْخُنَّسِۙ

fa lā uqsimu bil-khunnas

So I call the receding stars to witness

الْجَوَارِ الْكُنَّسِۙ

al-jawāril-kunnas

The planets withdrawing into themselves

وَالَّيْلِ اِذَا عَسْعَسَۙ

wal-laili iżā 'as'as

The closing night

وَالصُّبْحِ اِذَا تَنَفَّسَۙ

waṣ-ṣub-ḥi iżā tanaffas

The rising dawn

اِنَّهٗ لَقَوْلُ رَسُوْلٍ كَرِيْمٍۙ

innahụ laqaulu rasụling karīm

That this is indeed the word of an honoured Messenger

ذِيْ قُوَّةٍ عِنْدَ ذِى الْعَرْشِ مَكِيْنٍۙ

żī quwwatin 'inda żil-'arsyi makīn

Full of power well-established (in position) with the Lord and Master of the Throne

مُّطَاعٍ ثَمَّ اَمِيْنٍۗ

muṭā'in ṡamma amīn

Obeyed and worthy there of trust.

وَمَا صَاحِبُكُمْ بِمَجْنُوْنٍۚ

wa mā ṣāḥibukum bimajnụn

Your companion is not mad.

وَلَقَدْ رَاٰهُ بِالْاُفُقِ الْمُبِيْنِۚ

wa laqad ra`āhu bil-ufuqil-mubīn

He had surely seen Him on the clear horizon.

وَمَا هُوَ عَلَى الْغَيْبِ بِضَنِيْنٍۚ

wa mā huwa 'alal-gaibi biḍanīn

He is not chary of making public what is unknown.

وَمَا هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شَيْطٰنٍ رَّجِيْمٍۚ

wa mā huwa biqauli syaiṭānir rajīm

This is not the utterance of an accursed devil.

فَاَيْنَ تَذْهَبُوْنَۗ

fa aina taż-habụn

So whither do you stray?

اِنْ هُوَ اِلَّا ذِكْرٌ لِّلْعٰلَمِيْنَۙ

in huwa illā żikrul lil-'ālamīn

This is a reminder for all the peoples of the world

لِمَنْ شَاۤءَ مِنْكُمْ اَنْ يَّسْتَقِيْمَۗ

liman syā`a mingkum ay yastaqīm

For those of you who desire to walk the path that is straight

وَمَا تَشَاۤءُوْنَ اِلَّآ اَنْ يَّشَاۤءَ اللّٰهُ رَبُّ الْعٰلَمِيْنَ

wa mā tasyā`ụna illā ay yasyā`allāhu rabbul-'ālamīn

Though you cannot desire except as God will the Lord of all the worlds.