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1.  *     By the loosed ones successively
 
2.  *     storming tempestuously
 
3.  *     by the scatterers scattering
 
4.  *     and the severally severing
 
5.  *     and those hurling a reminder
 
6.  *     excusing or warning,
 
7.  *     surely that which you are promised is about to fall!
 
8.  *     When the stars shall be extinguished,
 
9.  *     when heaven shall be split
 
10.  *     when the mountains shall be scattered
 
11.  *     and when the Messengers' time is set,
 
12.  *     to what day shall they be delayed?
 
13.  *     To the Day of Decision.
 
14.  *     And what shall teach thee what is the Day of Decision?
 
15.  *     Woe that day unto those who cry it lies!
 
16.  *     Did We not destroy the ancients,
 
17.  *     and then follow them with the later folk?
 
18.  *     So We serve the sinners.
 
19.  *     Woe that day unto those who cry it lies!
 
20.  *     Did We not create you of a mean water,
 
21.  *     that We laid within a sure lodging
 
22.  *     till a known term decreed?
 
23.  *     We determined; excellent determiners are We.
 
24.  *     Woe that day unto those who cry it lies!
 
25.  *     Made We not the earth to be a housing
 
26.  *     for the living and for the dead?
 
27.  *     Set We not therein soaring mountains? Sated you with sweetest water?
 
28.  *     Woe that day unto those who cry it lies!
 
29.  *     Depart to that you cried was lies!
 
30.  *     Depart to a triple-massing shadow
 
31.  *     unshading against the blazing flame
 
32.  *     that shoots sparks like dry faggots,
 
33.  *     sparks like to golden herds.
 
34.  *     Woe that day unto those who cry it lies!
 
35.  *     This is the day they shall not speak
 
36.  *     neither be given leave, and excuse themselves.
 
37.  *     Woe that day unto those who cry it lies!
 
38.  *     'This is the Day of Decision; We have joined you with the ancients;
 
39.  *     if you have a trick, try you now to trick Me!'
 
40.  *     Woe that day unto those who cry it lies!
 
41.  *     Truly the godfearing shall dwell amid shades and fountains,
 
42.  *     and such fruits as their hearts desire:
 
43.  *     'Eat and drink, with wholesome appetite, for that you were working.'
 
44.  *     Even so do We recompense the good-doers.
 
45.  *     Woe that day unto those who cry it lies!
 
46.  *     'Eat and take your joy a little; you are sinners!'
 
47.  *     Woe that day unto those who cry it lies!
 
48.  *     When it is said to them, 'Prostrate yourselves!' they prostrate not.
 
49.  *     Woe that day unto those who cry it lies!
 
50.  *     In what discourse after this will they believe?