Sura LXXXVI.
The Night-Comer

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

BY the heaven, and by the NIGHT-COMER! But who shall teach thee what the night-comer is? ‘Tis the star of piercing radiance. Over every soul is set a guardian.

Let man then reflect out of what he was created. He was created of the poured-forth germs, Which issue from the loins and breastbones:

Well able then is God to restore him to life, — On the day when all secrets shall be searched out, And he shall have no other might or helper.

I swear by the heaven which accomplisheth its cycle, And by the earth which openeth her bosom, That this Koran is a discriminating discourse, And that it is not frivolous.

They plot a plot against thee, And I will plot a plot against them. Deal calmly therefore with the infidels; leave them awhile alone.