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By the Mount
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and a Book inscribed
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in a parchment unrolled,
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by the House inhabited
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and the roof uplifted
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and the sea swarming,
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surely thy Lord's chastisement is about to fall;
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there is none to avert it.
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Upon the day when heaven spins dizzily
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and the mountains are in motion,
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woe that day unto those that cry lies,
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such as play at plunging,
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the day when they shall be pitched into the fire of Gehenna:
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'This is the fire that you cried lies to!
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What, is this magic, or is it you that do not see?
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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.'
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Surely the godfearing shall be in gardens and bliss,
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rejoicing in that their Lord has given them; and their Lord shall guard them against the chastisement of Hell.
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'Eat and drink, with wholesome appetite, for that you were working.
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Reclining upon couches ranged in rows; and We shall espouse them to wide-eyed houris.
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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.
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And We shall succour them with fruits and flesh such as they desire
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while they pass therein a cup one to another wherein is no idle talk, no cause of sin,
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and there go round them youths, their own, as if they were hidden pearls.
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They advance one upon another, asking each other questions.
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They say, 'We were before among our people, ever going in fear,
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and God was gracious to us, and guarded us against the chastisement of the burning wind;
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we were before ever calling upon Him; surely He is the All-benign, the All-compassionate.'
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Therefore remind! by thy Lord's blessing thou art not a soothsayer neither possessed.
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Or do they say, 'He is a poet for whom we await Fate's uncertainty'?
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Say: 'Await! I shall be awaiting with you.'
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Or do their intellects bid them do this? Or are they an insolent people?
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Or do they say, 'He has invented it?' Nay, but they do not believe.
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Then let them bring a discourse like it, if they speak truly.
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Or were they created out of nothing? Or are they the creators?
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Or did they create the heavens and earth? Nay, but they have not sure faith.
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Or are thy Lord's treasuries in their keeping? Or are they the registrars?
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Or have they a ladder whereon they listen? Then let any of them that has listened bring a clear authority.
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Or has He daughters, and they sons?
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Or askest thou them for a wage, and so they are weighed down with debt?
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Or is the Unseen in their keeping, and so they are writing it down?
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Or desire they to outwit? The unbelievers, they are the outwitted.
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Or have they a god, other than God? Glory be to God, above that which they associate!
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Even if they saw lumps falling from heaven, they would say, 'A massed cloud!'
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Then leave them, till they encounter their day wherein they shall be thunderstruck,
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the day when their guile shall avail them naught, and they shall not be helped.
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And there surely awaits the evildoers a chastisement beyond even that, but most of them know it not.
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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,
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and proclaim the praise of thy Lord in the night, and at the declining of the stars.
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