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1.  *     By the swift scatterers
 
2.  *     and the burden-bearers
 
3.  *     and the smooth runners
 
4.  *     and the partitioners,
 
5.  *     surely that you are promised is true,
 
6.  *     and surely the Doom is about to fall!
 
7.  *     By heaven with all its tracks
 
8.  *     surely you speak at variance,
 
9.  *     and perverted therefrom are some.
 
10.  *     Perish the conjecturers
 
11.  *     who are dazed in perplexity
 
12.  *     asking, 'When shall be the Day of Doom?'
 
13.  *     Upon the day when they shall be tried at the Fire:
 
14.  *     'Taste your trial! This is that you were seeking to hasten.'
 
15.  *     Surely the godfearing shall be among gardens and fountains
 
16.  *     taking whatsoever their Lord has given them; they were good-doers before that.
 
17.  *     Little of the night would they slumber,
 
18.  *     and in the mornings they would ask for forgiveness;
 
19.  *     and the beggar and the outcast had a share in their wealth.
 
20.  *     In the earth are signs for those having sure faith;
 
21.  *     and in your selves; what, do you not see?
 
22.  *     And in heaven is your provision, and that you are promised.
 
23.  *     So by the Lord of heaven and earth, it is as surely true as that you have speech.
 
24.  *     Hast thou received the story of the honoured guests of Abraham?
 
25.  *     When they entered unto him, saying 'Peace!' he said 'Peace! You are a people unknown to me.'
 
26.  *     Then he turned to his household and brought a fattened calf,
 
27.  *     and he laid it before them saying, 'Will you not eat?'
 
28.  *     Then he conceived a fear of them. They said, 'Be not afraid!' And they gave him good tidings of a cunning boy.
 
29.  *     Then came forward his wife, clamouring, and she smote her face, and said, 'An old woman, barren!'
 
30.  *     They said, 'So says thy Lord; He is the All-wise, the All-knowing.'
 
31.  *     Said he, 'And what is your business, envoys?'
 
32.  *     They said, 'We have been sent to a people of sinners,
 
33.  *     to loose upon them stones of clay
 
34.  *     marked with thy Lord for the prodigal.
 
35.  *     So We brought forth such believers as were in it,
 
36.  *     but We found not therein except one house of those that have surrendered themselves.
 
37.  *     And therein We left a sign to those who fear the painful chastisement.
 
38.  *     And also in Moses, when We sent him unto Pharaoh, with a clear authority,
 
39.  *     but he turned his back, with his court, saying, 'A sorcerer, or a man possessed!'
 
40.  *     So We seized him and his hosts, and We cast them into the sea, and he blameworthy.
 
41.  *     And also in Ad, when We loosed against them the withering wind
 
42.  *     that left nothing it came upon, but made it as stuff decayed.
 
43.  *     And also in Thamood, when it was said to them, 'Take your enjoyment for a while!'
 
44.  *     Then they turned in disdain from the commandment of their Lord, and the thunderbolt took them and they themselves beholding
 
45.  *     and they were not able to stand upright, and were not helped.
 
46.  *     And the people of Noah before; surely they were an ungodly people.
 
47.  *     And heaven -- We built it with might, and We extend it wide.
 
48.  *     And the earth -- We spread it forth; O excellent Smoothers!
 
49.  *     And of everything created We two kinds; haply you will remember.
 
50.  *     Therefore flee unto God! I am a clear warner from Him to you.
 
51.  *     And set not up with God another god; I am a clear warner from Him to you.
 
52.  *     Even so not a Messenger came to those before them but they said, 'A sorcerer, or a man possessed!'
 
53.  *     What, have they bequeathed it one to another? Nay, but they are an insolent people.
 
54.  *     So turn thou from them; thou wilt not be reproached.
 
55.  *     And remind; the Reminder profits the believers.
 
56.  *     I have not created jinn and mankind except to serve Me.
 
57.  *     I desire of them no provision, neither do I desire that they should feed Me.
 
58.  *     Surely God is the All-provider, the Possessor of Strength, the Ever-Sure.
 
59.  *     The evildoers shall have their portion, like the portion of their fellows; so let them not hasten Me!
 
60.  *     So woe to the unbelievers, for that day of theirs that they are promised.