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khalifa
 
1.  *     The Most Gracious.
 
2.  *     Teacher of the Quran.
 
3.  *     Creator of the human beings.
 
4.  *     He taught them how to distinguish.
 
5.  *     The sun and the moon are perfectly calculated.
 
6.  *     The stars and the trees prostrate.
 
7.  *     He constructed the sky and established the law.
 
8.  *     You shall not transgress the law.
 
9.  *     You shall establish justice; do not violate the law.
 
10.  *     He created the earth for all creatures.
 
11.  *     In it there are fruits, and date palms with their hanging fruit.
 
12.  *     Also grains and the spices.
 
13.  *     (O humans and jinns,) which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
14.  *     He created the human from aged clay, like the potter's clay.
 
15.  *     And created the jinns from blazing fire.
 
16.  *     (O humans and jinns,) which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
17.  *     Lord of the two easts and the two wests.
 
18.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
19.  *     He separates the two seas where they meet.
 
20.  *     A barrier is placed between them, to prevent them from transgressing.
 
21.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
22.  *     Out of both of them you get pearls and coral.
 
23.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
24.  *     He gave you ships that roam the sea like flags.
 
25.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
26.  *     Everyone on earth perishes.
 
27.  *     Only the presence of your Lord lasts. Possessor of Majesty and Honor.
 
28.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
29.  *     Imploring Him is everyone in the heavens and the earth. Every day He is in full control.
 
30.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
31.  *     We will call you to account, O humans and jinns.
 
32.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
33.  *     O you jinns and humans, if you can penetrate the outer limits of the heavens and the earth, go ahead and penetrate. You cannot penetrate without authorization.
 
34.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
35.  *     You get bombarded with projectiles of fire and metal, and you cannot win.
 
36.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
37.  *     When the sky disintegrates, and turns rose colored like paint.
 
38.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
39.  *     On that day, no human, nor a jinn, will be asked about his sins.
 
40.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
41.  *     (This is because) the guilty will be recognized by their looks; they will be taken by the forelocks and the feet.
 
42.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
43.  *     This is Gehenna that the guilty used to deny.
 
44.  *     They will circulate between it and an intolerable inferno.
 
45.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
46.  *     For those who reverence the majesty of their Lord, two gardens (one for the jinns and one for the humans).
 
47.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
48.  *     Full of provisions.
 
49.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
50.  *     Two springs are in them, flowing.
 
51.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
52.  *     Of every fruit in them, two kinds.
 
53.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
54.  *     While relaxing on furnishings lined with satin, the fruits are within reach.
 
55.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
56.  *     Their beautiful mates were never touched by any human or jinn.
 
57.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
58.  *     They look like gems and coral.
 
59.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
60.  *     Is the reward of goodness anything but goodness?
 
61.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
62.  *     Below them are two gardens (one for the jinns and one for the humans).
 
63.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
64.  *     Side by side.
 
65.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
66.  *     In them, wells to be pumped.
 
67.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
68.  *     In them are fruits, date palms, and pomegranate.
 
69.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
70.  *     In them are beautiful mates.
 
71.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
72.  *     Confined in the tents.
 
73.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
74.  *     No human ever touched them, nor a jinn.
 
75.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
76.  *     They relax on green carpets, in beautiful surroundings.
 
77.  *     Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
 
78.  *     Most exalted is the name of your Lord, Possessor of Majesty and Honor.