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1.  *     The incontestable (event).
 
2.  *     What an incontestable (event)!
 
3.  *     It is truly incontestable.
 
4.  *     Thamoud and `Aad disbelieved in the Shocker.
 
5.  *     As for Thamoud, they were annihilated by the devastating (quake).
 
6.  *     As for `Aad, they were annihilated by a persistent, violent storm
 
7.  *     He unleashed it upon them for seven nights and eight days, violently. You could see the people tossed around like decayed palm trunks.
 
8.  *     Can you find any trace of them?
 
9.  *     Pharaoh, others before him, and the sinners (of Sodom) were wicked.
 
10.  *     They disobeyed the messenger of their Lord. Consequently, He requited them a devastating requital.
 
11.  *     The flood was devastating, so we carried you on the floating (ark).
 
12.  *     We rendered it a lesson for you, that any listening ear may understand.
 
13.  *     When the horn is blown once
 
14.  *     The earth and the mountains will be carried off and crushed; utterly crushed.
 
15.  *     That is the day when the inevitable event will come to pass.
 
16.  *     The heaven will crack, and fall apart.
 
17.  *     The angels will be all around, and Your Lord's dominion will then encompass eight (universes).
 
18.  *     On that day, you will be exposed, nothing of you can be hidden
 
19.  *     As for the one who receives his record with his right hand, he will say, "Come read my record.
 
20.  *     "I did believe that I was going to be held accountable."
 
21.  *     He has deserved a happy life.
 
22.  *     In an exalted Paradise
 
23.  *     Its fruits are within reach.
 
24.  *     Eat and drink happily in return for your works in days past.
 
25.  *     As for him who is given his record in his left hand, he will say, "Oh, I wish I never received my record
 
26.  *     "I wish I never knew my account.
 
27.  *     "I wish my death was eternal
 
28.  *     "My money cannot help me.
 
29.  *     "All my power is gone."
 
30.  *     Take him and shackle him.
 
31.  *     Burn him in Hell.
 
32.  *     In a chain that is seventy arms long, tie him up.
 
33.  *     For he did not believe in GOD, Most Great.
 
34.  *     Nor did he advocate the feeding of the poor.
 
35.  *     Consequently, he has no friend here.
 
36.  *     Nor any food, except the bitter variety.
 
37.  *     Food for the sinners.
 
38.  *     I swear by what you see
 
39.  *     And what you do not see.
 
40.  *     This is the utterance of an honorable messenger.
 
41.  *     Not the utterance of a poet; rarely do you believe.
 
42.  *     Nor the utterance of a soothsayer; rarely do you take heed.
 
43.  *     A revelation from the Lord of the universe.
 
44.  *     Had he uttered any other teachings.
 
45.  *     We would have punished him.
 
46.  *     We would have stopped the revelations to him.
 
47.  *     None of you could have helped him.
 
48.  *     This is a reminder for the righteous.
 
49.  *     We know; some of you are rejectors.
 
50.  *     It is but sorrow for the disbelievers.
 
51.  *     It is the absolute truth.
 
52.  *     Therefore, you shall glorify the name of your Lord, Most Great.