# Surah 81

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> Surah 81
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> Al Takwir (The Folding Up)
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> In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
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> 1.  When the sun (with its spacious light) is folded up;
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> 2.  When the stars fall, losing their lustre;
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> 3.  When the mountains vanish (like a mirage);
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> 4.  When the she-camels, ten months with young, are left untended;
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> 5.  When the wild beasts are herded together (in human habitations);
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> 6.  When the oceans boil over with a swell;
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> 7.  When the souls are sorted out (Being joined, like with like);
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> 8.  When the female (infant), Buried alive, is questioned--
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> 9.  For what crime she was killed;
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> 10.  When the Scrolls are laid open;
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> 11.  When the World on High is unveiled:
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> 12.  When the Blazing Fire is kindled to fierce heat;
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> 13.  And when the Garden is brought near--
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> 14.  (Then) shall each soul know what it has put forward.
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> 15.  So verily I call to witness the planets--that recede,
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> 16.  Go straight, or hide;
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> 17.  And the Night as it dissipates--
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> 18.  And the Dawn as it breathes away the darkness--
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> 19.  Verily this is the word of a most honorable Messenger,
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> 20.  Endued with Power, with rank before the Lord of the Throne,
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> 21.  With authority there, (and) faithful of his trust.
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> 22.  And (O people!) your companion is not one possessed;
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> 23.  And without doubt he saw him in the clear horizon.
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> 24.  Neither doth he withhold Grudgingly a knowledge of the Unseen.
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> 25.  Nor is it the word of an evil spirit accursed.
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> 26.  Then whither go ye?
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> 27.  Verily this is no less than a Message to (all) the Worlds:
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> 28.  (With profit) to whoever among you wills to go straight.
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> 29.  But ye shall not will Except as Allah wills, The Cherisher of the Worlds.
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> — *Surah 81*