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75:1  I [need] not swear by the Day of Resurrection
75:2  And I need not swear by the self-reproaching soul
75:3  Does man reckon that WE are not to put his bones together?
75:4  O yes! WE are ever almightily capable over the exact restoration of his fingertips
75:5  Nay! Man wants to separate out what is ahead of him
75:6  He asks, “Just when is the Day of Resurrection?”
75:7  Then, when the sight is dazed
75:8  And the moon disappears
75:9  And the sun and the moon are collected—
75:10  That day, man will ask, “Where is the place to flee?”
75:11  Not to be! Not any stronghold for refuge.
75:12  Unto your Rabb that day is the final habitation.
75:13  Fully informed will man be that day about what he sent ahead and what he failed to deliver.
75:14  Rather, man has full insight into his own soul—
75:15  even if he tenders his excuses.
75:16  Do not belabor your tongue with [the Quran], so to hasten with it
75:17  Of certain, its collection and its recitation are upon US.
75:18  So, when WE recite it— follow its recitation.
75:19  Then, certainly its elucidation [and dissemination] are upon US.
75:20  By no means [will anyone have an excuse]. Nay, you all love the temporal,
75:21  While you put aside the Hereafter.
75:22  [Countless] faces that day aglow,
75:23  Locked in gaze, toward their Rabb.
75:24  And [countless] faces that day tense
75:25  anticipating that they will be subjected to a backbreaker.
75:26  Not ever [will you escape death]. When [the soul] reaches the collarbones,
75:27  and it is asked, “Who is a charmer to turn time back?”
75:28  While he has surmised that it is the time of parting.
75:29  And the leg entwined with the leg,
75:30  unto your Rabb that day is the headway.
75:31  Yet [with an insight into his deeds], he did not affirmatively believe, nor did he pray—
75:32  But he did give the lie to the truth and had turned away
75:33  then headed back swaggering to his people.
75:34  Closer [is that moment of death] for you— yet closer now
75:35  Then, closer [is the day of Judgment] for you – yet closer now.
75:36  Does man figure that he will be left unaccounted for?
75:37  Was he not a drop from semen ejected?
75:38  Thereafter he was a leech-like clot— [nameless until] HE created, and [faceless until] HE shaped?
75:39  Then HE made from it, the complementary pair— the male and the female.
75:40  Is not that [One] every wise almightily capable of giving life to the dead?