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1.  *     By the Mount
 
2.  *     and a Book inscribed
 
3.  *     in a parchment unrolled,
 
4.  *     by the House inhabited
 
5.  *     and the roof uplifted
 
6.  *     and the sea swarming,
 
7.  *     surely thy Lord's chastisement is about to fall;
 
8.  *     there is none to avert it.
 
9.  *     Upon the day when heaven spins dizzily
 
10.  *     and the mountains are in motion,
 
11.  *     woe that day unto those that cry lies,
 
12.  *     such as play at plunging,
 
13.  *     the day when they shall be pitched into the fire of Gehenna:
 
14.  *     'This is the fire that you cried lies to!
 
15.  *     What, is this magic, or is it you that do not see?
 
16.  *     Roast in it! And bear you patiently, or bear not patiently, equal it is to you; you are only being recompensed for that you were working.'
 
17.  *     Surely the godfearing shall be in gardens and bliss,
 
18.  *     rejoicing in that their Lord has given them; and their Lord shall guard them against the chastisement of Hell.
 
19.  *     'Eat and drink, with wholesome appetite, for that you were working.
 
20.  *     Reclining upon couches ranged in rows; and We shall espouse them to wide-eyed houris.
 
21.  *     And those who believed, and their seed followed them in belief, We shall join their seed with them, and We shall not defraud them of aught of their work; every man shall be pledged for what he earned.
 
22.  *     And We shall succour them with fruits and flesh such as they desire
 
23.  *     while they pass therein a cup one to another wherein is no idle talk, no cause of sin,
 
24.  *     and there go round them youths, their own, as if they were hidden pearls.
 
25.  *     They advance one upon another, asking each other questions.
 
26.  *     They say, 'We were before among our people, ever going in fear,
 
27.  *     and God was gracious to us, and guarded us against the chastisement of the burning wind;
 
28.  *     we were before ever calling upon Him; surely He is the All-benign, the All-compassionate.'
 
29.  *     Therefore remind! by thy Lord's blessing thou art not a soothsayer neither possessed.
 
30.  *     Or do they say, 'He is a poet for whom we await Fate's uncertainty'?
 
31.  *     Say: 'Await! I shall be awaiting with you.'
 
32.  *     Or do their intellects bid them do this? Or are they an insolent people?
 
33.  *     Or do they say, 'He has invented it?' Nay, but they do not believe.
 
34.  *     Then let them bring a discourse like it, if they speak truly.
 
35.  *     Or were they created out of nothing? Or are they the creators?
 
36.  *     Or did they create the heavens and earth? Nay, but they have not sure faith.
 
37.  *     Or are thy Lord's treasuries in their keeping? Or are they the registrars?
 
38.  *     Or have they a ladder whereon they listen? Then let any of them that has listened bring a clear authority.
 
39.  *     Or has He daughters, and they sons?
 
40.  *     Or askest thou them for a wage, and so they are weighed down with debt?
 
41.  *     Or is the Unseen in their keeping, and so they are writing it down?
 
42.  *     Or desire they to outwit? The unbelievers, they are the outwitted.
 
43.  *     Or have they a god, other than God? Glory be to God, above that which they associate!
 
44.  *     Even if they saw lumps falling from heaven, they would say, 'A massed cloud!'
 
45.  *     Then leave them, till they encounter their day wherein they shall be thunderstruck,
 
46.  *     the day when their guile shall avail them naught, and they shall not be helped.
 
47.  *     And there surely awaits the evildoers a chastisement beyond even that, but most of them know it not.
 
48.  *     And be thou patient under the judgment of thy Lord; surely thou art before Our eyes. And proclaim the praise of thy Lord when thou arisest,
 
49.  *     and proclaim the praise of thy Lord in the night, and at the declining of the stars.