| 1 | By those who drag forth to destruction, | |
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| 2 | By the meteors rushing, | |
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| 3 | By the lone stars floating, | |
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| 4 | By the angels hastening, | |
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| 5 | And those who govern the event, | |
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| 6 | On the day when the first trump resoundeth. | |
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| 7 | And the second followeth it, | |
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| 8 | On that day hearts beat painfully | |
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| 9 | While eyes are downcast | |
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| 10 | (Now) they are saying: Shall we really be restored to our first state | |
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| 11 | Even after we are crumbled bones? | |
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| 12 | They say: Then that would be a vain proceeding. | |
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| 13 | Surely it will need but one shout, | |
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| 14 | And lo! they will be awakened. | |
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| 15 | Hath there come unto thee the history of Moses? | |
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| 16 | How his Lord called him in the holy vale of Tuwa, | |
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| 17 | (Saying:) Go thou unto Pharaoh - Lo! he hath rebelled - | |
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| 18 | And say (unto him): Hast thou (will) to grow (in grace)? | |
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| 19 | Then I will guide thee to thy Lord and thou shalt fear (Him). | |
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| 20 | And he showed him the tremendous token. | |
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| 21 | But he denied and disobeyed, | |
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| 22 | Then turned he away in haste, | |
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| 23 | Then gathered he and summoned | |
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| 24 | And proclaimed: "I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest." | |
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| 25 | So Allah seized him (and made him) an example for the after (life) and for the former. | |
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| 26 | Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for him who feareth. | |
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| 27 | Are ye the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built? | |
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| 28 | He raised the height thereof and ordered it; | |
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| 29 | And He made dark the night thereof, and He brought forth the morn thereof. | |
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| 30 | And after that He spread the earth, | |
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| 31 | And produced therefrom the water thereof and the pasture thereof, | |
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| 32 | And He made fast the hills, | |
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| 33 | A provision for you and for your cattle. | |
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| 34 | But when the great disaster cometh, | |
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| 35 | The day when man will call to mind his (whole) endeavour, | |
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| 36 | And hell will stand forth visible to him who seeth, | |
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| 37 | Then, as for him who rebelled | |
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| 38 | And chose the life of the world, | |
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| 39 | Lo! hell will be his home. | |
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| 40 | But as for him who feared to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from lust, | |
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| 41 | Lo! the Garden will be his home. | |
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| 42 | They ask thee of the Hour: when will it come to port? | |
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| 43 | Why (ask they)? What hast thou to tell thereof? | |
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| 44 | Unto thy Lord belongeth (knowledge of) the term thereof. | |
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| 45 | Thou art but a warner unto him who feareth it. | |
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| 46 | On the day when they behold it, it will be as if they had but tarried for an evening or the morn thereof. | |
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