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| 1. * | The Hour has drawn nigh: the moon is split. |
| 2. * | Yet if they see a sign they turn away, and they say 'A continuous sorcery!' |
| 3. * | They have cried lies, and followed their caprices; but every matter is settled. |
| 4. * | And there have come to them such tidings as contain a deterrent -- |
| 5. * | a Wisdom far-reaching; yet warnings do not avail. |
| 6. * | So turn thou away from them. Upon the day when the Caller shall call unto a horrible thing, |
| 7. * | abasing their eyes, they shall come forth from the tombs as if they were scattered grasshoppers, |
| 8. * | running with outstretched necks to the Caller. The unbelievers shall say, 'This is a hard day!' |
| 9. * | The people of Noah cried lies before them; they cried lies to Our servant, and said, 'A man possessed!' And he was rejected. |
| 10. * | And so he called unto his Lord, saying, 'I am vanquished; do Thou succour me!' |
| 11. * | Then We opened the gates of heaven unto water torrential, |
| 12. * | and made the earth to gush with fountains, and the waters met for a matter decreed. |
| 13. * | And We bore him upon a well-planked vessel well-caulked |
| 14. * | running before Our eyes-a recompense for him denied. |
| 15. * | And We left it for a sign. Is there any that will remember? |
| 16. * | How then were My chastisement and My warnings? |
| 17. * | Now We have made the Koran easy for Remembrance. Is there any that will remember? |
| 18. * | Ad cried lies. How then were My chastisement and My warnings? |
| 19. * | We loosed against them a wind clamorous in a day of ill fortune continuous, |
| 20. * | plucking up men as if they were stumps of uprooted palm-trees. |
| 21. * | How then were My chastisement and My warnings? |
| 22. * | Now We have made the Koran easy for Remembrance. Is there any that will remember? |
| 23. * | Thamood cried lies to the warnings |
| 24. * | and said, 'What, shall we follow a mortal, one out of ourselves? Then indeed we should be in error and insanity! |
| 25. * | Has the Reminder been cast upon him alone among us? Nay, rather he is an impudent liar.' |
| 26. * | 'They shall surely know tomorrow who is the impudent liar. |
| 27. * | They shall send the She-camel as a trial for them; so watch thou them and keep patience. |
| 28. * | And tell them that the water is to be divided between them, each drink for each in turn. |
| 29. * | Then they called their comrade, and he took in hand, and hamstrung her. |
| 30. * | How then were My chastisement and My warnings? |
| 31. * | We loosed against them one Cry, and they were as the wattles of a pen-builder. |
| 32. * | Now We have made the Koran easy for Remembrance. Is there any that will remember? |
| 33. * | The people of Lot cried lies to the warnings. |
| 34. * | We loosed against them a squall of pebbles except the folk of Lot; We delivered them at the dawn -- |
| 35. * | a blessing from Us; even so We recompense him who is thankful. |
| 36. * | He had warned them of Our assault, but they disputed the warnings. |
| 37. * | Even his guests they had solicited of him; so We obliterated their eyes, saying, 'Taste now My chastisement and My warnings!' |
| 38. * | In the morning early there came upon them a settled chastisement: |
| 39. * | 'Taste now My chastisement and My warnings!' |
| 40. * | Now We have made the Koran easy for Remembrance. Is there any that will remember? |
| 41. * | The warnings came also to Pharaoh's folk. |
| 42. * | They cried lies to Our signs, all of them, so We seized them with the seizing of One mighty, omnipotent. |
| 43. * | What, are your unbelievers better than those? Or have you an immunity in the Scrolls? |
| 44. * | Or do they say, 'We are a congregation that shall be succoured?' |
| 45. * | Certainly the host shall be routed, and turn their backs. |
| 46. * | Nay, but the Hour is their tryst, and the Hour is very calamitous and bitter. |
| 47. * | Surely the sinners are in error and insanity! |
| 48. * | The day when they are dragged on their faces into the Fire: 'Taste now the touch of Sakar!' |
| 49. * | Surely We have created everything in measure. |
| 50. * | Our commandment is but one word, as the twinkling of an eye. |
| 51. * | We have destroyed the likes of you; is there any that will remember? |
| 52. * | Every thing that they have done is in the Scrolls, |
| 53. * | and everything, great and small, is inscribed. |
| 54. * | Surely the godfearing shall dwell amid gardens and a river |
| 55. * | in a sure abode, in the presence of a King Omnipotent. |