Sura 81: Overthrowing (At-Takwîr)^1.1

In the name of Allah, Gracious, Merciful.

¹When the sun is folded up;

²And when the stars fall losing their luster;

³And when the mountains vanish;

⁴And when the she camels, ten months with young are left untended;

⁵And when the wild beasts are herded together;

⁶And when the oceans boil over with a swell;

⁷And when the souls are sorted out;

⁸When the female buried alive is questioned.

⁹For what crime she was killed;¹

¹⁰And when the scrolls are laid open;

¹¹And when the world on high is unveiled:

¹²And when the blazing fire is kindled to fierce heat;

¹³And when the garden is brought near.

Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim

¹Iza syamsu kuwirat

²Wa idzan nujumun kadarat

³Wa idzal jibalu suyirat

⁴Wa izal isyaru uthilat

⁵Wa izal wuhusyu husyirat

⁶Wa izal biharu sujirat

⁷Wa izan nufusu zuwujat

⁸Wa izal mau udatu suilat

⁹Bi ayyi zambin qutilat;

¹⁰Wa izash shuhufu nusyirat

¹¹Wa izasa ukusyithat

¹²Wa izal jahimu suirat

¹³Wa izal janatu uzlifat

1. In pre-Islamic Arabia, girl daughters were killed at the birth while saving all boy children. Sin and the vanity of man’s heart has no limits with jurisdiction, it will affect mankind everywhere without hindrance. The Word of God gives us new birth and new minds.

[Commentary continues below.]

¹⁴Shall each soul know what it has put forward.

¹⁵So verily, I call to witness the planets that recede.

16Go straight or hide^;

¹⁷And the night as it dissipates.

¹⁸And the dawn as it breathes away the darkness.

¹⁹Verily, this is the word of a most honorable messenger.

²⁰Endued with power and rank before the Lord of the throne.

²¹With authority there faithful of his trust.

²²And your companion is not one possessed;

²³And without doubt he saw him in the clear horizon.²

²⁴And neither does he withhold grudgingly a knowledge of the unseen.

²⁵And is it the word of an evil spirit accursed.³

²⁶Where then will you go?

²⁷Verily, this is no less than a message to the worlds:

²⁸To whoever among you wills to go straight.

¹⁴Alimat nafsum ma ahdharat

¹⁵Fala uqsimu bilkhunas

¹⁶Aljawaril kunas

¹⁷Wal laili iza asas

¹⁸Wa shubhi iza tanafas

¹⁹Innahu laqaulu rasulin karim

²⁰Ziquwatin inda zil arsyi makin

²¹Muthain samma amin

²²Wa mashahibukum bimajnun

²³Wa laqad raahu bil ufuqil mubin

²⁴Wa ma huwa alal qhaibi bidhanin

²⁵Wa ma huwa biqauli syaithanir rajim

²⁶Fa aina tazhahun

²⁷In huwa illa zikrul lilalamin

²⁸Liman sya a minkum ayastaqim

2. How close was Muhammad to the angel he saw? The confusion between the Holy Spirit and the angel Gabriel may have come as a result of how close Muhammad was when he saw the entity. One’s view on a clear day on the desert may go as far as up to 50 miles or more. In this case without a telescope objects may not be as clear to the viewer as he would think. Did Muhammad see the angel Gabriel, is the angel Gabriel the Holy Spirit, or Muhammad is the Holy Spirit as claimed for him Muslim scholars who equate the Comforter with Muhammad.

3. Now this is interesting. When I am approached by a person of another tribe (erroneously called race), and without provocation this person says to me “I am not racist (in other words tribalistic), that to me is a dead giveaway. First Allah says, Muhammad saw the angel in the horizon, which by the way almost killed him with suffocation (refer to Qur’an 73 and 74), he left the mountain and went home shivering feverishly with fear, which, to his observers were signs of demon possession, and Allah says he was not visited by an accursed spirit, when all signs point that way. His words are not truly representative of history before his time, quotations from the Bible are misses and a host of other things. I would say that he was misled alright. If it quarks like a duck, waddles like a duck, swims like a duck, “bless your heart”, it is a duck.

²⁹But you shall not will, except as Allah wills, the Lord of the worlds.

²⁹Wa ma tasya una illa ayasya allahu rabul alamin