# Sura  86 - The Night-Comer

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> SURA LXXXVI (86) - The Night-Comer (Mecca - 17 Verses)         (XXII - 37)      
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        By the heaven, and by the Night-Comer!
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>        But who shall teach thee what the night-comer is?
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>        'Tis the star of piercing radiance.
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>        Over every soul is set a guardian.
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>        Let man then reflect out of what he was created.
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>        He was created of the poured-forth germs,
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>        Which issue from the loins and breastbones:
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>        Well able then is God to restore him to life, -
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>        On the day when all secrets shall be searched out,
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> 86:10  And he shall have no other might or helper.
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>        I swear by the heaven which accomplisheth its cycle,
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>        And by the earth which openeth her bosom,
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>        That his Koran is a discriminating discourse,
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>        And that it is not frivolous.
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>        They plot a plot against thee,
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>        And I will plot a plot against them.
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>        Deal calmly therefore with the infidels; leave them awhile alone.
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> — *Sura  86 - The Night-Comer*