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ABOUT WHAT do they [most often] ask one another?
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About the awesome tiding [of resurrection],
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on which they [so utterly] disagree. [2]1
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Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]!
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And once again: [3]2 Nay, but in time they will come to understand!
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HAVE WE NOT made the earth a resting-place [for you],
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and the mountains [its] pegs? [4]3
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And We have created you in pairs; [5]4
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and We have made your sleep [a symbol of] death [6]5
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and made the night [its] cloak
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and made the day [a symbol of] life. [7]6
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And We have built above you seven firmaments, [8]7
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and have placed [therein the sun,] a lamp full of blazing splendour.
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And from the wind-driven clouds We send down waters pouring in abundance,
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so that We might bring forth thereby grain, and herbs,
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and gardens dense with follage. [9]8
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VERILY, the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false] [10]9 has indeed its appointed time:
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the Day when the trumpet [of resurrection] is sounded and you all come forward in multitudes;
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and when the skies are opened and become [as wide-flung] gates; [11]10
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and when the mountains are made to vanish as if they had been a mirage. [12]11
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[On that Day,] verily, hell will lie in wait [for those who deny the truth] -
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a goal for all who are wont to transgress the bounds of what is right!
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In it shall they remain for a long time. [13]12
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Neither coolness shall they taste therein nor any [thirst-quenching] drink -
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only burning despair and ice-cold darkness: [14]13
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a meet requital [for their sins]!
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Behold, they were not expecting to be called to account,
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having given the lie to Our messages one and all:
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but We have placed on record every single thing [of what they did].
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[And so We shall say:] "Taste, then, [the fruit of your evil doings,] for now We shall bestow on you nothing but more and more suffering!" [15]14
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[But,] verily for the God-conscious there is supreme fulfilment in store: [16]15
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luxuriant gardens and vinyards,
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and splendid companions well matched, [17]16
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and a cup [of happiness] overflowing.
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No empty talk will they hear in that [paradise], nor any lie.
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[All this will be] a reward from thy Sustainer, a gift in accordance with [His Own] reckoning [18]17 -
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[a reward from] the Sustainer of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, the Most Gracious! [And] none shall have it in their power to raise their voices unto Him
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on the Day when all [human] souls [19]18 and all the angels will stand up in ranks: none will speak but he to whom the Most Gracious will have given leave; and [everyone] will say [only] what is right. [20]19
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That will be the Day of Ultimate Truth: [21]20 whoever wills, then, let him take the path that leads towards his Sustainer!
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Verily, We have warned you of suffering near at hand - [suffering] on the Day when man shall [clearly] see what his hands have sent ahead, and when he who has denied the truth shall say, "Oh, would that I were mere dust... !"
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