When the sun is folded up(1).

O men, fear your Sustainer; the trembling of the Hour is an awesome event(1)

When the earth is convulsed(2);

When the heavens are torn asunder(3);

When the heavens are torn apart(4);

Concerning what they dispute(5);

Has the story reached you, of the overwhelming event?(6)

Besides demonstrating with complete certainty at the beginning of thirty or forty suras that resurrection is the most important and necessary truth in the universe, it sets forth various persuasive evidences for that truth in others of its verses

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(1) Qur’an, 81:1.
(1) Qur’an, 22:1.
(2) Qur’an, 99:1.
(3) Qur’an, 82:1.
(4) Qur’an, 84:1.
(5) Qur’an, 78:1.
(6) Qur’an, 88:1.