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those who glide serenely, and those who outrun easily, and those who
direct affairs. (Surat an-Nazi'at, 1-5)
No! I swear by the planets with their retrograde motion, swiftly
moving, self-concealing, and by the night when it draws in, and by the
dawn when it exhales, (Surat at-Takwir, 15-18)
No, I swear by the evening glow, and the night and all it shrouds,
and the moon when it is full, (Surat al-Inshiqaq, 16-18)
By Heaven with its Houses of the Zodiac, and the Promised Day,
and the witness and the witnessed, (Surat al-Buruj, 1-3)
By Heaven and the Night-Comer! And what will convey to you
what the Night-Comer is? The Piercing Star! (Surat at-Tariq, 1-3)
By Heaven with its cyclical systems and the earth with its splitting
seeds. (Surat at-Tariq, 11-12)
By the dawn and ten nights, and the even and odd, and the night
when it travels on, is there not in that an oath for the intelligent? (Surat
al-Fajr, 1-5)
I swear by this city – and you are resident in this city – and by a fa-
ther and what he fathered, (Surat al-Balad, 1-3)
By the sun and its morning brightness, and the moon when it fol-
lows it, and the day when it displays it, and the night when it conceals
it and the sky and what erected it and the earth and what extended it.
and the self and what proportioned it and inspired it with depravity or
its sense of duty. (Surat ash-Shams, 1-8)
By the night when it conceals and the day when it reveals and the
creation of male and female, there is a vast difference in your striving.
(Surat al-Layl, 1-4)
By the morning brightness and the night when it covers with dark-
ness, (Surat ad-Duha, 1-2)
By the fig and the olive and Mount Sinai and this safe land, (Surat at-
Tin, 1-3)
By the charging horses panting hard, striking sparks from their
flashing hooves, raiding at full gallop in the early dawn, leaving a
trailing dust-cloud in their wake, cleaving through the middle of the
foe, (Surat al-'Adiyat, 1-5)
Through the ages, (Surat al-'Asr, 1)