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75:1  No! I swear by the Day of Rising!
75:2  No! I swear by the self-reproaching self.
75:3  Does man imagine We will not reassemble his bones?
75:4  On the contrary! We are well able to reshape his fingers.
75:5  Yet man still wants to deny what is ahead of him,
75:6  asking, ´So when is the Day of Rising?´
75:7  But when the eyesight is dazzled,
75:8  and the moon is eclipsed,
75:9  and the sun and moon are fused together,
75:10  on that Day man will say, ´Where can I run?´
75:11  No indeed! There will be no safe place.
75:12  That Day the only resting place will be your Lord.
75:13  That Day man will be told what he did and failed to do.
75:14  In fact, man will be clear proof against himself
75:15  in spite of any excuses he might offer.
75:16  Do not move your tongue trying to hasten it.
75:17  Its collection and recitation are Our affair.
75:18  So when We recite it, follow its recitation.
75:19  Then its explanation is Our concern.
75:20  No indeed! But you love this fleeting world
75:21  and you disregard the Next World.
75:22  Faces that Day will be radiant,
75:23  gazing at their Lord.
75:24  And faces that Day will be glowering,
75:25  realising that a back-breaking blow has fallen.
75:26  No indeed! When it reaches the gullet
75:27  and he hears the words, ´Who can heal him now?´
75:28  and he knows it is indeed the final parting,
75:29  and one leg is entwined with the other:
75:30  that Day he will be driven to your Lord.
75:31  He neither affirmed the truth nor did he do salat,
75:32  but rather denied the truth and turned away.
75:33  and then went off to his family, swaggering.
75:34  It is coming closer to you and closer.
75:35  Then closer to you and closer still.
75:36  Does man reckon he will be left to go on unchecked?
75:37  Was he not a drop of ejaculated sperm,
75:38  then a blood-clot which He created and shaped,
75:39  making from it both sexes, male and female?
75:40  Is He who does this not able to bring the dead to life?