# Sura  81 - The Folding Up

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> THE CHAPTER OF THE FOLDING UP
> (LXXXI. Mecca.)
> IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
> When the sun is folded up,
> And when the stars do fall,
> And when the mountains are moved,
> And when the she-camels ten months' gone with young
> shall be neglected,
> And when the beasts shall be crowded together,
> And when the seas shall surge up,
> And when souls shall be paired with bodies,
> And when the child who was buried alive shall be asked
> for what sin she was slain,
> And when the pages shall be spread out,
> And when the heaven shall be flayed,
> And when hell shall be set ablaze,
> And when Paradise shall be brought nigh,
> The soul shall know what it has produced!
> I need not swear by the stars that slink back, moving swiftly, slinking into their dens!
> Nor by the night when darkness draws on!
> Nor by the morn when it first breathes up!
> Verily, it is the speech of a noble apostle, mighty, standing sure with the Lord of the throne, obeyed and trusty too!
> Your comrade is not mad; he saw him on the plain horizon, nor does he grudge to communicate the unseen.
> Nor is it the speech of a pelted devil.
> Then whither do ye go?
> It is but a reminder to the worlds, to whomsoever of you pleases to go straight:- but ye will not please, except God, the Lord of the world, should please.
>
> — *Sura  81 - The Folding Up*