Allah takes the souls at the time of their death, and those that do not die [He takes] during their sleep. Then He keeps those for which He has decreed death and releases the others for a specified term. Indeed in that are signs for a people who give thought.
خداوند روح انسان‌ها را هنگام مرگشان به تمامى باز مى‌ستاند، و [نيز] روح كسى را كه نمرده است، به هنگام خواب [قبض مى‌كند] پس آن [روح‌] را كه مرگ را بر او مقدر كرده نگاه مى‌دارد، و ديگرى را تا سر آمدى معيّن باز مى‌فرستد. قطعا در اين [امر] براى مردمى كه م