The Qur'an Sura LXXXVI — THE NIGHT-COMER
1BY the heaven, and by the NIGHT-COMER!
2But who shall teach thee what the night-comer is?
3'Tis the star of piercing radiance.
4Over every soul is set a guardian.
5Let man then reflect out of what he was created.
6He was created of the poured-forth germs,
7Which issue from the loins and breastbones:
8Well able then is God to restore him to life,–
9On the day when all secrets shall be searched out,
10And he shall have no other might or helper.
11I swear by the heaven which accomplisheth its cycle,
12And by the earth which openeth her bosom,
13That this Koran is a discriminating discourse,
14And that it is not frivolous.
15They plot a plot against thee,
16And I will plot a plot against them.
17Deal calmly therefore with the infidels; leave them awhile alone.
Suras are in the standard order; verse divisions follow Rodwell's 1861 edition and do not always match the standard ayah numbering.