| 1 | Nay, I swear by the Day of Resurrection; | |
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| 2 | Nay, I swear by the accusing soul (that this Scripture is true). | |
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| 3 | Thinketh man that We shall not assemble his bones? | |
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| 4 | Yea, verily. We are Able to restore his very fingers! | |
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| 5 | But man would fain deny what is before him. | |
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| 6 | He asketh: When will be this Day of Resurrection? | |
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| 7 | But when sight is confounded | |
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| 8 | And the moon is eclipsed | |
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| 9 | And sun and moon are united, | |
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| 10 | On that day man will cry: Whither to flee! | |
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| 11 | Alas! No refuge! | |
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| 12 | Unto thy Lord is the recourse that day. | |
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| 13 | On that day man is told the tale of that which he hath sent before and left behind. | |
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| 14 | Oh, but man is a telling witness against himself, | |
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| 15 | Although he tender his excuses. | |
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| 16 | Stir not thy tongue herewith to hasten it. | |
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| 17 | Lo! upon Us (resteth) the putting together thereof and the reading thereof. | |
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| 18 | And when We read it, follow thou the reading; | |
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| 19 | Then lo! upon Us (resteth) the explanation thereof. | |
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| 20 | Nay, but ye do love the fleeting Now | |
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| 21 | And neglect the Hereafter. | |
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| 22 | That day will faces be resplendent, | |
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| 23 | Looking toward their Lord; | |
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| 24 | And that day will other faces be despondent, | |
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| 25 | Thou wilt know that some great disaster is about to fall on them. | |
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| 26 | Nay, but when the life cometh up to the throat | |
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| 27 | And men say: Where is the wizard (who can save him now)? | |
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| 28 | And he knoweth that it is the parting; | |
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| 29 | And agony is heaped on agony; | |
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| 30 | Unto thy Lord that day will be the driving. | |
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| 31 | For he neither trusted, nor prayed. | |
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| 32 | But he denied and flouted. | |
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| 33 | Then went he to his folk with glee. | |
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| 34 | Nearer unto thee and nearer, | |
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| 35 | Again nearer unto thee and nearer (is the doom). | |
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| 36 | Thinketh man that he is to be left aimless? | |
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| 37 | Was he not a drop of fluid which gushed forth? | |
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| 38 | Then he became a clot; then (Allah) shaped and fashioned | |
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| 39 | And made of him a pair, the male and female. | |
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| 40 | Is not He (Who doeth so) Able to bring the dead to life? | |
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