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Chapter 75: 

Al-QIYAMA (the rising of the dead, resurrection)
Total Verses:  40 Revealed At:  Makka

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In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

075.001 Y:  I do call to witness the Resurrection Day;

P:  Nay, I swear by the Day of Resurrection;

S:  Nay!  I swear by the day of resurrection.

075.002 Y:  And I do call to witness the self-reproaching spirit:  (Eschew Evil).

P:  Nay, I swear by the accusing soul (that this Scripture is true).

S:  Nay!  I swear by the self-accusing soul.

075.003 Y:  Does man think that We cannot assemble his bones?

P:  Thinketh man that We shall not assemble his bones?

S:  Does man think that We shall not gather his bones?

075.004 Y:  Nay, We are able to put together in perfect order the very tips of his fingers.

P:  Yea, verily.  We are Able to restore his very fingers!

S:  Yea!  We are able to make complete his very fingertips

075.005 Y:  But man wishes to do wrong (even) in the time in front of him.

P:  But man would fain deny what is before him.

S:  Nay! man desires to give the lie to what is before him.

075.006 Y:  He questions:  “When is the Day of Resurrection?”

P:  He asketh:  When will be this Day of Resurrection?

S:  He asks:  When is the day of resurrection?

075.007 Y:  At length, when the sight is dazed,

P:  But when sight is confounded

S:  So when the sight becomes dazed,

075.008 Y:  And the moon is buried in darkness.

P:  And the moon is eclipsed

S:  And the moon becomes dark,

075.009 Y:  And the sun and moon are joined together,-

P:  And sun and moon are united,

S:  And the sun and the moon are brought together,

075.010 Y:  That Day will Man say:  “Where is the refuge?”

P:  On that day man will cry:  Whither to flee!

S:  Man shall say on that day:  Whither to fly to?

075.011 Y:  By no means!  No place of safety!

P:  Alas!  No refuge!

S:  By no means! there shall be no place of refuge!

075.012 Y:  Before thy Lord (alone), that Day will be the place of rest.

P:  Unto thy Lord is the recourse that day.

S:  With your Lord alone shall on that day be the place of rest.

075.013 Y:  That Day will Man be told (all) that he put forward, and all that he put back.

P:  On that day man is told the tale of that which he hath sent before and left behind.

S:  Man shall on that day be informed of what he sent before and (what he) put off.