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The Sure Reality! |
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What is the Sure Reality? |
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And what will make thee realize what the Sure Reality is? |
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The Thamud and the 'Ad people (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity! |
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But the Thamud -- they were destroyed by a terrible storm of thunder and lightning! |
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And the 'Ad -- they were destroyed by a furious wind, exceedingly violent; |
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He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession:
So that thou couldst see the (whole) people lying prostrate in its (path), as if they had been roots of hollow palm trees tumbled down! |
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Then seest thou any of them left surviving? |
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And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin. |
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And disobeyed (each) the messenger of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty. |
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We, when the water (of Noah's flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating (Ark). |
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That We might make it a message unto you, and that ears (that should hear the tale and) retain its memory should bear its (lessons) in remembrance. |
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Then, when one Blast is sounded on the Trumpet, |
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And the earth is moved, and its mountains, and they are crushed to powder at one stroke -- |
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On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass, |
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And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy, |
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And the angels will be on its sides,
and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord above them. |
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That Day shall ye be brought to Judgment:
not an act of yours that ye hide will be hidden. |
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Then He that will be given his Record in his right hand will say:
"Ah here! read ye my Record! |
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"I did really understand that my Account would (one Day) reach me!" |
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And he will be in a life of Bliss, |
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In a Garden on high, |
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The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near. |
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"Eat ye and drink ye, with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you in the days that are gone!" |
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And he that will be given his Record in his left hand, will say: "Ah! would that my record had not been given to me! |
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"And that I had never realized how my account (stood)! |
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"Ah! would that (Death) had made an end of me! |
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"Of no profit to me has been my wealth! |
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"My power has perished from me!"... |
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(The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him, |
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"And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire. |
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"Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits! |
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"This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High, |
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"And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent! |
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"So no friend hath he here this Day. |
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"Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds, |
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"Which none do eat but those in sin." |
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So I do call to witness what ye see |
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And what ye see not, |
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That this is verily the word of an honored messenger; |
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It is not the word of a poet:
little it is ye believe! |
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Nor is it the word of a soothsayer:
little admonition it is ye receive. |
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(This is) a Message sent down from the Lord of the Worlds. |
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And if the messenger were to invent any sayings in Our name, |
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We should certainly seize him by his right hand, |
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And We should certainly then cut off the artery of his heart: |
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Nor could any of you withhold him (from Our wrath). |
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But verily this is a Message for the Allah-fearing. |
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And We certainly know that there are amongst you those that reject (it) |
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But truly (Revelation) is a cause of sorrow for the Unbelievers. |
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But verily it is Truth of assured certainty. |
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So glorify the name of thy Lord Most High. ********* |