81. At-Takwir

81:1

إِذَا ٱلشَّمْسُ كُوِّرَتْ ﴿١﴾

Idhā ash-shamsu kuwwirat

When the sun is overthrown,

81:2

وَإِذَا ٱلنُّجُومُ ٱنكَدَرَتْ ﴿٢﴾

Waʾidhā an-nujūmu inkadarat

And when the stars fall,

81:3

وَإِذَا ٱلْجِبَالُ سُيِّرَتْ ﴿٣﴾

Waʾidhā al-jibālu suyyirat

And when the hills are moved,

81:4

وَإِذَا ٱلْعِشَارُ عُطِّلَتْ ﴿٤﴾

Waʾidhā al-ʿishāru ʿuṭṭilat

And when the camels big with young are abandoned,

81:5

وَإِذَا ٱلْوُحُوشُ حُشِرَتْ ﴿٥﴾

Waʾidhā al-wuḥūshu ḥushirat

And when the wild beasts are herded together,

81:6

وَإِذَا ٱلْبِحَارُ سُجِّرَتْ ﴿٦﴾

Waʾidhā al-biḥāru sujjirat

And when the seas rise,

81:7

وَإِذَا ٱلنُّفُوسُ زُوِّجَتْ ﴿٧﴾

Waʾidhā an-nufūsu zuwwijat

And when souls are reunited,

81:8

وَإِذَا ٱلْمَوْءُۥدَةُ سُئِلَتْ ﴿٨﴾

Waʾidhā al-mawʾūdatu suʾilat

And when the girl-child that was buried alive is asked

81:9

بِأَىِّ ذَنۢبٍ قُتِلَتْ ﴿٩﴾

Biʾayyi dhanbin qutilat

For what sin she was slain,

81:10

وَإِذَا ٱلصُّحُفُ نُشِرَتْ ﴿١٠﴾

Waʾidhā aṣ-ṣuḥufu nushirat

And when the pages are laid open,

81:11

وَإِذَا ٱلسَّمَآءُ كُشِطَتْ ﴿١١﴾

Waʾidhā as-samāʾu kushiṭat

And when the sky is torn away,

81:12

وَإِذَا ٱلْجَحِيمُ سُعِّرَتْ ﴿١٢﴾

Waʾidhā al-jaḥīmu suʿʿirat

And when hell is lighted,

81:13

وَإِذَا ٱلْجَنَّةُ أُزْلِفَتْ ﴿١٣﴾

Waʾidhā al-jannatu uzlifat

And when the Garden is brought nigh,

81:14

عَلِمَتْ نَفْسٌ مَّآ أَحْضَرَتْ ﴿١٤﴾

ʿalimat nafsun mā aḥḍarat

(Then) every soul will know what it hath made ready.

81:15

فَلَآ أُقْسِمُ بِٱلْخُنَّسِ ﴿١٥﴾

Falā uqsimu bil-khunnas

Oh, but I call to witness the planets,

81:16

ٱلْجَوَارِ ٱلْكُنَّسِ ﴿١٦﴾

Al-jawāri al-kunnas

The stars which rise and set,

81:17

وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذَا عَسْعَسَ ﴿١٧﴾

Wallayli idhā ʿasʿas

And the close of night,

81:18

وَٱلصُّبْحِ إِذَا تَنَفَّسَ ﴿١٨﴾

Waṣ-ṣubḥi idhā tanaffas

And the breath of morning

81:19

إِنَّهُۥ لَقَوْلُ رَسُولٍ كَرِيمٍ ﴿١٩﴾

Innahu laqawlu rasūlin karīm

That this is in truth the word of an honoured messenger,

81:20

ذِى قُوَّةٍ عِندَ ذِى ٱلْعَرْشِ مَكِينٍ ﴿٢٠﴾

Dhī quwwatin ʿinda dhī al-ʿarshi makīn

Mighty, established in the presence of the Lord of the Throne,

81:21

مُّطَاعٍ ثَمَّ أَمِينٍ ﴿٢١﴾

Muṭāʿin thamma amīn

(One) to be obeyed, and trustworthy;

81:22

وَمَا صَاحِبُكُم بِمَجْنُونٍ ﴿٢٢﴾

Wamā ṣāḥibukum bimajnūn

And your comrade is not mad.

81:23

وَلَقَدْ رَءَاهُ بِٱلْأُفُقِ ٱلْمُبِينِ ﴿٢٣﴾

Walaqad raʾāhu bil-ufuqi al-mubīn

Surely he beheld Him on the clear horizon.

81:24

وَمَا هُوَ عَلَى ٱلْغَيْبِ بِضَنِينٍ ﴿٢٤﴾

Wamā huwa ʿalā al-ghaybi biḍanīn

And he is not avid of the Unseen.

81:25

وَمَا هُوَ بِقَوْلِ شَيْطَـٰنٍ رَّجِيمٍ ﴿٢٥﴾

Wamā huwa biqawli shayṭānin rajīm

Nor is this the utterance of a devil worthy to be stoned.

81:26

فَأَيْنَ تَذْهَبُونَ ﴿٢٦﴾

Faʾayna tadhhabūn

Whither then go ye?

81:27

إِنْ هُوَ إِلَّا ذِكْرٌ لِّلْعَـٰلَمِينَ ﴿٢٧﴾

In huwa illā dhikrun lilʿālamīn

This is naught else than a reminder unto creation,

81:28

لِمَن شَآءَ مِنكُمْ أَن يَسْتَقِيمَ ﴿٢٨﴾

Liman shāʾa minkum an yastaqīm

Unto whomsoever of you willeth to walk straight.

81:29

وَمَا تَشَآءُونَ إِلَّآ أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُ رَبُّ ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ ﴿٢٩﴾

Wamā tashāʾūna illā an yashāʾa Allāhu rabbu al-ʿālamīn

And ye will not, unless (it be) that Allah willeth, the Lord of Creation.