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khalifa
 
1.  *     The blowing winds.
 
2.  *     Bearing rain.
 
3.  *     Bringing provisions.
 
4.  *     Distributing them as commanded.
 
5.  *     What is promised to you will surely come to pass.
 
6.  *     The Day of Judgment is inevitable.
 
7.  *     Despite the perfectly created sky.
 
8.  *     You continue to dispute the truth.
 
9.  *     Deviating therefrom are the deviators.
 
10.  *     Woe to the falsifiers.
 
11.  *     In their blundering, they are totally heedless.
 
12.  *     They question the Day of Judgment.
 
13.  *     The day they are presented to the fire.
 
14.  *     Taste the retribution; this is what you used to challenge.
 
15.  *     The righteous have deserved gardens and springs.
 
16.  *     They receive their Lord's rewards, for they used to be pious.
 
17.  *     Rarely did they sleep the whole night.
 
18.  *     At dawn, they prayed for forgiveness.
 
19.  *     A portion of their money was set aside for the beggar and the needy.
 
20.  *     The earth is full of signs for those who are certain.
 
21.  *     And within yourselves; can you see?
 
22.  *     In the heaven is your provision, and everything that is promised to you.
 
23.  *     By the Lord of the heaven and the earth, this is as true as the fact that you speak.
 
24.  *     Have you noted the history of Abraham's honorable guests?
 
25.  *     They visited him, saying, "Peace." He said, "Peace to you, strangers!"
 
26.  *     He asked his family to prepare a fat calf.
 
27.  *     When he offered it to them, he remarked, "Do you not eat?"
 
28.  *     He harbored fear of them. They said, "Have no fear," and they gave good news of a knowledgeable son.
 
29.  *     His wife was astonished. Noting her wrinkled face: "I am a sterile old woman."
 
30.  *     They said, "Thus said your Lord. He is the Most Wise, the Omniscient."
 
31.  *     He said, "What are you up to, O messengers?"
 
32.  *     They said, "We have been dispatched to criminal people.
 
33.  *     "We will shower them with rocks of clay.
 
34.  *     "Marked by your Lord for the transgressors."
 
35.  *     We then delivered all the believers.
 
36.  *     We did not find in it except one house of submitters.
 
37.  *     We set it up as a lesson for those who fear the painful retribution.
 
38.  *     In Moses (there is a lesson). We sent him to Pharaoh with manifest proofs.
 
39.  *     But he turned away, in arrogance, and said, "Magician, or crazy."
 
40.  *     Consequently, we punished him and his troops. We threw them into the sea, and he is the one to blame.
 
41.  *     In `Aad (there is a lesson). We sent upon them disastrous wind.
 
42.  *     Anything that it came upon was utterly destroyed.
 
43.  *     In Thamoud (there is a lesson). They were told, "Enjoy temporarily."
 
44.  *     They rebelled against the command of their Lord. Consequently, the lightning struck them as they looked.
 
45.  *     They could never get up, nor were they helped.
 
46.  *     And the people of Noah before that; they were wicked people.
 
47.  *     We constructed the sky with our hands, and we will continue to expand it.
 
48.  *     And we made the earth habitable; a perfect design.
 
49.  *     We created a pair (male and female) of everything, that you may take heed.
 
50.  *     You shall escape to GOD. I am sent by Him to you as a manifest warner.
 
51.  *     KHALIFA:Do not set up beside GOD any other god. I am sent by Him to you as a manifest warner.
 
52.  *     Consistently, when a messenger went to the previous generations, they said, "Magician," or, "Crazy."
 
53.  *     Did they make an agreement with each other? Indeed, they are transgressors.
 
54.  *     You may disregard them; you cannot be blamed.
 
55.  *     And remind, for the reminder benefits the believers.
 
56.  *     I did not create the jinns and the humans except to worship Me alone.
 
57.  *     I need no provisions from them, nor do I need them to feed Me.
 
58.  *     GOD is the Provider, the Possessor of all power, the Supreme.
 
59.  *     The transgressors have incurred the same fate as their previous counterparts; they should not challenge.
 
60.  *     Woe to those who disbelieved from the day that is awaiting them.