مصحف الثريا

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ وَٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلطَّارِقِ ۝١

CONSIDER the heavens and that which comes in the night!

وَمَآ أَدْرَىٰكَ مَا ٱلطَّارِقُ ۝٢

And what could make thee conceive what it is that comes in the night?

ٱلنَّجْمُ ٱلثَّاقِبُ ۝۳

It is the star that pierces through [life's] darkness:

إِن كُلُّ نَفْسٍۢ لَّمَّا عَلَيْهَا حَافِظٌۭ ۝٤

[for] no human being has ever been left unguarded.

فَلْيَنظُرِ ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ مِمَّ خُلِقَ ۝٥

LET MAN, then, observe out of what he has been created:

خُلِقَ مِن مَّآءٍۢ دَافِقٍۢ ۝٦

he has been created out of a seminal fluid

يَخْرُجُ مِنۢ بَيْنِ ٱلصُّلْبِ وَٱلتَّرَآئِبِ ۝۷

issuing from between the loins [of man] and the pelvic arch [of woman].

إِنَّهُۥ عَلَىٰ رَجْعِهِۦ لَقَادِرٌۭ ۝۸

Now, verily, He [who thus creates man in the first instance] is well able to bring him back [to life]

يَوْمَ تُبْلَى ٱلسَّرَآئِرُ ۝۹

on the Day when all secrets will be laid bare,

فَمَا لَهُۥ مِن قُوَّةٍۢ وَلَا نَاصِرٍۢ ۝١۰

and [man] will have neither strength nor helper!

وَٱلسَّمَآءِ ذَاتِ ٱلرَّجْعِ ۝١١

Consider the heavens, ever-revolving,

وَٱلْأَرْضِ ذَاتِ ٱلصَّدْعِ ۝١٢

and the earth, bursting forth with plants!

إِنَّهُۥ لَقَوْلٌۭ فَصْلٌۭ ۝١۳

BEHOLD, this [divine writ] is indeed a word that between truth and falsehood,

وَمَا هُوَ بِٱلْهَزْلِ ۝١٤

and is no idle tale.

إِنَّهُمْ يَكِيدُونَ كَيْدًۭا ۝١٥

Behold, they [who refuse to accept it] devise many a false argument [to disprove its truth];

وَأَكِيدُ كَيْدًۭا ۝١٦

but I shall bring all their scheming to nought.

فَمَهِّلِ ٱلْكَٰفِرِينَ أَمْهِلْهُمْ رُوَيْدًۢا ۝١۷

Let, then, the deniers of the truth have their will: let them have their will for a little while.