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By
the Break of Day; |
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By
the Nights twice five; |
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By
the Even and Odd (contrasted); |
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And
by the Night when it passes away-- |
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Is
there (not)
in these and adjuration (or
evidence) for those who understand? |
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See
you not how your Lord dealt with the `Ad (people)-- |
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Of
the (city of)
Iram, with lofty pillars, |
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The
like of which were not produced in (all)
the land? |
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And
with the Thamud (people),
who cut out (huge)
rocks in the valley?-- |
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And
with Pharaoh, Lord of Stakes? |
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(All)
these transgressed Beyond bounds in the lands. |
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And
heaped therein Mischief (on
mischief). |
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Therefore
did your Lord pour on them a scourge of diverse chastisement: |
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For
your Lord is (As a Guardian)
on a watch-tower. |
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Now,
as for human, when his Lord tries him, giving him honor and gifts,
then says he, (puffed up),
"My Lord has honored me." |
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But
when He tries him, restricting his subsistence for him, then says
he (in despair),
"My Lord has humiliated me!" |
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Nay,
nay! But you honor not the orphans! |
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Nor
do you encourage one another to feed the poor!-- |
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And
you devour inheritance--all with greed, |
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And
you love wealth with inordinate love! |
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Nay!
When the earth is pounded to powder, |
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And
your Lord comes, and His angels, rank upon rank, |
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And
Hell, that Day, is brought (face
to face)--on that Day will person
remember, but how will that remembrance profit him? |
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He
will say: "Ah! Would that I had sent forth (Good
Deeds) for (this)
my (Future)
Life." |
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For,
that Day, His Chastisement will be such as none (else)
can inflict, |
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And
His bonds will be such as none (other)
can bind. |
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(To
the righteous soul will be said:)
"O (you)
soul, in (complete)
rest and satisfaction! |
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"Come
back you to your Lord--well pleased (thyself),
and well-pleasing unto Him! |
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"Enter
you, then, among my Devotees! |
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"Yes,
enter you my Heaven"! |
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