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Title:       Koran (Qu'ran)
Author:      Allah

[XXXII.]

Sura LXXXI. - The Folded Up

Mecca. - 29 Verses

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

When the sun shall be Folded Up, ^1

[Footnote 1: Involutus fuerit tenebris.  Mar. Or, thrown down.]

And when the stars shall fall,
And when the mountains shall be set in motion.
And when the she-camels shall be abandoned,
And when the wild beasts shall be gathered together, ^2

[Footnote 2: Thus Bab. Talm. Erchin, 3. "In the day to come (i.e., of
judgment) all the beasts will assemble and come, etc."]

And when the seas shall boil,
And when souls shall be paired with their bodies,

     And when the female child that had been buried alive shall be asked

For what crime she was put to death, ^3

[Footnote 3: See Sura xvi. 61; xvii. 33.]

And when the leaves of the Book shall be unrolled,
And when the Heaven shall be stripped away, ^4

[Footnote 4: Like a skin from an animal when flayed.  The idea is perhaps
borrowe from the Sept. V. of Psalm civ. 2. Vulg. sicut pellem.]

And when Hell shall be made to blaze,
And when Paradise shall be brought near,
Every soul shall know what it hath produced.
It needs not that I swear by the stars ^1 of retrograde motions

[Footnote 1: Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn.]

Which move swiftly and hide themselves away,
And by the night when it cometh darkening on,
And by the dawn when it brighteneth,
That this is the word of an illustrious Messenger, ^2

[Footnote 2: Gabriel; of the meaning of whose name the next verse is probably
a paraphrase.]

     Endued with power, having influence with the Lord of the Throne,

Obeyed there by Angels, faithful to his trust,
And your compatriot is not one possessed by djinn;
For he saw him in the clear horizon: ^3

[Footnote 3: Sura liii. 7.]

Nor doth he grapple with heaven's secrets, ^4

[Footnote 4: Like a mere Kahin, or soothsayer.]

Nor doth he teach the doctrine of a cursed ^5 Satan.

[Footnote 5: Lit. stoned.  Sura iii. 31.  This vision or hallucination is one
of the few clearly stated miracles, to which Muhammad appeals in the Koran.
According to the tradition of Ibn-Abbas in Waquidi he was preserved by it
from committing suicide by throwing himself down from Mount Hira, and that
after it, God cheered him and strengthened his heart, and one revelation
speedily followed another.]

Whither then are ye going?
Verily, this is no other than a warning to all creatures;
To him among you who willeth to walk in a straight path:

     But will it ye shall not, unless as God willeth it, ^6 the Lord of the worlds.

[Footnote 6: Comp. the doctrine of predestination in Sura lxxvi. v. 25 to
end.]