In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
**1. **When the sun Kuwwirat (wound round and lost its light and is overthrown).
**2. **And when the stars shall fall;
**3. **And when the mountains shall made to pass away;
**4. **And when the pregnant she-camels shall be neglected;
**5. **And when the wild beasts shall be gathered together;
**6. **And when the seas shall become as blazing Fire or shall overflow;
**7. **And when the souls shall be joined with their bodies;
**8. **And when the female (infant) buried alive (as the pagan Arabs used to do) shall be questioned.
**9. **For what sin she was killed?
**10. **And when the written pages of deeds (good and bad) of every person shall be laid open;
**11. **And when the heaven shall be stripped off and taken away from its place;
**12. **And when Hell-fire shall be kindled to fierce ablaze.
**13. **And when Paradise shall be brought near,
**14. **(Then) every person will know what he has brought (of good and evil).
**15. **So verily, I swear by the planets that recede (i.e. disappear during the day and appear during the night).
**16. **And by the planets that move swiftly and hide themselves,
**17. **And by the night as it departs;
**18. **And by the dawn as it brightens;
**19. **Verily, this is the Word (this Qur’ân brought by) a most honourable messenger [Jibrael (Gabriel), from Allâh to the Prophet Muhammad
**20. **Owner of power, and high rank with (Allâh) the Lord of the Throne,
**21. **Obeyed (by the angels), trustworthy there (in the heavens).
**22. **And (O people) your companion (Muhammad) is not a madman;
**23. **And indeed he (Muhammad
saw him [Jibrael (Gabriel)] in the clear horizon (towards the east).
**24. **And he (Muhammad ) withholds not a knowledge of the unseen.
**25. **And it (the Qur’ân) is not the word of the outcast Shaitân (Satan).
**26. **Then where are you going?
**27. **Verily, this (the Qur’ân) is no less than a Reminder to (all) the *'Alamîn *(mankind and jinns).
**28. **To whomsoever among you who wills to walk straight,
**29. **And you will not, unless (it be) that Allâh wills, the Lord of the *'Alamîn *(mankind, jinns and all that exists).