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By the rangers ranging
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and the scarers scaring
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and the reciters of a Remembrance,
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surely your God is One,
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Lord of the heavens and the earth, and of what between them is Lord of the Easts.
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We have adorned the lower heaven with the adornment of the stars
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and to preserve against every rebel Satan;
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they listen not to the High Council, for they are pelted from every side,
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rejected, and theirs is an everlasting chastisement,
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except such as snatches a fragment, and he is pursued by a piercing flame.
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So ask them for a pronouncement -- Are they stronger in constitution, or those We created? We created them of clinging clay.
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Nay, thou marvellest; and they scoff
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and, when reminded, do not remember
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and, when they see a sign, would scoff;
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and they say, 'This is nothing but manifest sorcery.
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What, when we are dead and become dust and bones, shall we indeed be raised up?
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What, and our fathers, the ancients?'
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Say: 'Yes, and in all lowliness.'
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For it is only a single scaring, then behold, they are watching
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and they say, 'Woe, alas for us! This is the Day of Doom.'
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'This is the Day of Decision, even that you cried lies to.
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Muster those who did evil, their wives, and that they were serving,
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apart from God, and guide them unto the path of Hell!
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And halt them, to be questioned:
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"Why help you not one another?"
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No indeed; but today they resign themselves in submission
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and advance one upon another, asking each other questions.
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These say, 'Why, you of old would come to us from the right hand.'
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Those say, 'No; on the contrary, you were not believers;
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we had no authority over you; no, you were an insolent people.
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So our Lord's Word is realised against us; we are tasting it.
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Therefore we perverted you, and we ourselves were perverts.'
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So all of them on that day are sharers in the chastisement.
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Even so We do with the sinners;
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for when it was said to them, 'There is no god but God,' they were ever waxing proud,
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saying, 'What, shall we forsake our gods for a poet possessed?'
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'No indeed; but he brought the truth, and confirmed the Envoys.
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Now certainly you shall be tasting the painful chastisement,
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and not be recompensed, except according to what you were doing.'
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Except for God's sincere servants;
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for them awaits a known provision,
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fruits -- and they high-honoured
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in the Gardens of Bliss
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upon couches, set face to face,
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a cup from a spring being passed round to them,
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white, a delight to the drinkers,
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wherein no sickness is, neither intoxication;
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and with them wide-eyed maidens restraining their glances
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as if they were hidden pearls.
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They advance one upon another, asking each other questions.
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One of them says, 'I had a comrade
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who would say, "Are you a confirmer?
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What, when we are dead and become dust and bones, shall we indeed be requited?"
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He says, 'Are you looking down?'
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Then he looks, and sees him in the midst of Hell.
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He says, 'By God, wellnigh thou didst destroy me;
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But for my Lord's blessing, I were one of the arraigned.
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What, do we then not die
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except for our first death, and are we not chastised?
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This is indeed the mighty triumph,
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for the like of this let the workers work.'
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Is that better as a hospitality, or the Tree of Ez-Zakkoum?
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We have appointed it as a trial for the evildoers.
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It is a tree that comes forth in the root of Hell;
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its spathes are as the heads of Satans,
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and they eat of it, and of it fill their bellies,
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then on top of it they have a brew of boiling water,
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then their return is unto Hell.
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They found their fathers erring,
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and they run in their footsteps.
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Before them erred most of the ancients,
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and We sent among them warners;
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and behold, how was the end of them that were warned,
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except for God's sincere servants.
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Noah called to Us; and how excellent were the Answerers!
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And We delivered him and his people from the great distress,
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and We made his seed the survivors,
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and left for him among the later folk
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'Peace be upon Noah among all beings!'
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Even so We recompense the good-doers;
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he was among Our believing servants.
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Then afterwards We drowned the rest.
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Of his party was also Abraham;
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when he came unto his Lord with a pure heart,
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when he said to his father and his folk, 'What do you serve?
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Is it a calumny, gods apart from God, that you desire?
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What think you then of the Lord of all Being?'
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And he cast a glance at the stars,
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and he said, 'Surely I am sick.'
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But they went away from him, turning their backs.
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Then he turned to their gods, and said, 'What do you eat?
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What ails you, that you speak not?'
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And he turned upon them smiting them with his right hand.
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Then came the others to him hastening.
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He said, 'Do you serve what you hew,
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and God created you and what you make?'
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They said, 'Build him a building, and cast him into the furnace!'
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They desired to outwit him; so We made them the lower ones.
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He said, 'I am going to my Lord; He will guide me.
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My Lord, give me one of the righteous.'
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Then We gave him the good tidings of a prudent boy;
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and when he had reached the age of running with him, he said, 'My son, I see in a dream that I shall sacrifice thee; consider, what thinkest thou?' He said, 'My father, do as thou art bidden; thou shalt find me, God willing, one of the steadfast.'
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When they had surrendered, and he flung him upon his brow,
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We called unto him, 'Abraham,
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thou hast confirmed the vision; even so We recompense the good-doers.
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This is indeed the manifest trial.'
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And We ransomed him with a mighty sacrifice,
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and left for him among the later folk
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'Peace be upon Abraham!'
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Even so We recompense the good-doers;
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he was among Our believing servants.
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Then We gave him the good tidings of Isaac, a Prophet, one of the righteous.
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And We blessed him, and Isaac; and of their seed some are good-doers, and some manifest self-wrongers.
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We also favoured Moses and Aaron,
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and We delivered them and their people from the great distress.
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And We helped them, so that they were the victors;
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and We gave them the Manifesting Book,
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and guided them in the straight path,
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and left for them among the later folk
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'Peace be upon Moses and, Aaron!'
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Even so We recompense the good-doers;
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they were among Our believing servants.
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Elias too was one of the Envoys;
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when he said to his people, 'Will you not be godfearing?
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Do you call on Baal, and abandon the Best of creators?
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God, your Lord, and the Lord of your fathers, the ancients?'
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But they cried him lies; so they will be among the arraigned,
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except for God's sincere servants;
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and We left for him among the later folk
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'Peace be upon Elias!'
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Even so We recompense the good-doers;
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he was among Our believing servants.
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Lot too was one of the Envoys;
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when We delivered him and his people all together,
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save an old woman among those that tarried;
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then We destroyed the others,
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and you pass by them in the morning
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and in the night; will you not understand?
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Jonah too was one of the Envoys;
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when he ran away to the laden ship
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and cast lots, and was of the rebutted,
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then the whale swallowed him down, and he blameworthy.
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Now had he not been of those that glorify God,
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he would have tarried in its belly until the day they shall be raised;
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but We cast him upon the wilderness, and he was sick,
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and We caused to grow over him a tree of gourds.
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Then We sent him unto a hundred thousand, or more,
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and they believed; so We gave them enjoyment for a while.
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So ask them for a pronouncement -- Has thy Lord daughters, and they sons?
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Or did We create the angels females, while they were witnesses?
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Is it not of their own calumny that they say,
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'God has begotten?' They are truly liars.
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Has He chosen daughters above sons?
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What ails you then, how you judge?
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What, and will you not remember?
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Or have you a clear authority?
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Bring your Book, if you speak truly!
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They have set up a kinship between Him and the jinn; and the jinn know that they shall be arraigned.
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Glory be to God above that they describe,
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except for God's sincere servants.
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But as for you, and that you serve,
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you shall not tempt any against Him
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except him who shall roast in Hell.
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None of us is there, but has a known station;
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we are the rangers,
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we are they that give glory.
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What though they would say,
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'If only we had had a Reminder from the ancients,
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then were we God's sincere servants.'
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But they disbelieved in it; soon they shall know!
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Already Our Word has preceded to Our servants, the Envoys;
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assuredly they shall be helped,
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and Our host -- they are the victors.
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So turn thou from them for a while,
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and see them; soon they shall see!
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What, do they seek to hasten Our chastisement?
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When it lights in their courtyard, how evil will be the morning of them that are warned!
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So turn thou from them for a while,
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and see; soon they shall see!
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Glory be to thy Lord, the Lord of Glory, above that they describe!
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And peace be upon the Envoys;
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and praise belongs to God, the Lord of all Being.
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