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Ha Mim
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By the Clear Book.
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We have sent it down in a blessed night (We are ever warning)
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therein every wise bidding
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determined as a bidding from Us, (We are ever sending)
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as a mercy from thy Lord (surely He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing)
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Lord of the heavens and earth, and all that between them is if you have faith.
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There is no god but He; He gives life and makes to die; your Lord and the Lord of your fathers, the ancients.
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Nay, but they are in doubt, playing.
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So be on the watch for a day when heaven shall bring a manifest smoke
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covering the people; this is a painful chastisement.
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'O our Lord, remove Thou from us the chastisement; we are believers.'
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How should they have the Reminder, seeing a clear Messenger already came to them,
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then they turned away from him and said, 'A man tutored, possessed!'
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'Behold, We are removing the chastisement a little; behold, you revert!'
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Upon the day when We shall assault most mightily, then We shall take Our vengeance.
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Already before them We tried the people of Pharaoh, and a noble Messenger came unto them,
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saying, 'Deliver to me God's servants; I am for you a faithful Messenger,
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and, 'Rise not up against God; behold, I come to you with a clear authority,
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and I take refuge in my Lord and your Lord, lest you should stone me.
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'But if so be that you believe me not, go you apart from me!'
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And he called to his Lord, saying, 'These are a sinful people.'
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'Then set thou forth with My servants in a watch of the night; surely you will be followed.
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And leave the sea becalmed; they are a drowned host.'
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They left how many gardens and fountains,
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sown fields, and how noble a station,
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and what prosperity they had rejoiced in!
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Even so; and We bequeathed them upon another people.
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Neither heaven nor earth wept for them, nor were they respited;
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and We delivered the Children of Israel from the humbling chastisement,
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from Pharaoh; surely he was a high One, of the prodigals;
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and We chose them, out of a knowledge, above all beings,
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and gave them signs wherein there was a manifest trial.
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These men do say,
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'There is nothing but our first death; we shall not be revived.
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Bring us our fathers, if you speak truly!'
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Are they better, or the people of Tubba' and those before them whom We destroyed? They were surely sinners.
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We created not the heavens and earth, and all that between them is, in play;
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We created them not save in truth; but most of them know it not.
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Surely the Day of Decision shall be their appointed time, all together,
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the day a master shall avail nothing a client, and they shall not be helped,
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save him upon whom God has mercy; He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate.
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Lo, the Tree of Ez-Zakkoum
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is the food of the guilty,
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like molten copper, bubbling in the belly
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as boiling water bubbles.
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'Take him, and thrust him into the midst of Hell,
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then pour over his head the chastisement of boiling water!'
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'Taste! Surely thou art the mighty, the noble.
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This is that concerning which you were doubting.'
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Surely the godfearing shall be in a station secure
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among gardens and fountains,
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robed in silk and brocade, set face to face.
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Even so; and We shall espouse them to wide-eyed houris,
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therein calling for every fruit, secure.
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They shall not taste therein of death, save the first death, And He shall guard them against the chastisement of Hell --
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a bounty from thy Lord; that is the mighty triumph.
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Now We have made it easy by thy tongue, that haply they may remember.
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So be on the watch; they too are on the watch.
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