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Surah Al-Qiyamah — 75:26

كَلَّآ إِذَا بَلَغَتِ ٱلتَّرَاقِىَ

Kallaaa izaa balaghatit taraaqee

Ależ nie! Kiedy dusza dojdzie do gardła

No! When it reaches the collarbones,

Reflection

Arabic can leave a verb's subject unstated, and it does here, so the thing rising to the collarbones goes unnamed while English has to supply a pronoun the original withholds. Kallā cuts in before the sentence begins, breaking off the two sets of faces just described and dropping the surah into a deathbed at close range. What follows keeps to the body: a question about who might cure him, then the recognition that separation has arrived.

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