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1.  *     Nay, I swear by the Day of Resurrection;
 
2.  *     Nay, I swear by the accusing soul (that this Scripture is true).
 
3.  *     Thinketh man that We shall not assemble his bones?
 
4.  *     Yea, verily. We are Able to restore his very fingers!
 
5.  *     But man would fain deny what is before him.
 
6.  *     He asketh: When will be this Day of Resurrection?
 
7.  *     But when sight is confounded
 
8.  *     And the moon is eclipsed
 
9.  *     And sun and moon are united,
 
10.  *     On that day man will cry: Whither to flee!
 
11.  *     Alas! No refuge!
 
12.  *     Unto thy Lord is the recourse that day.
 
13.  *     On that day man is told the tale of that which he hath sent before and left behind.
 
14.  *     Oh, but man is a telling witness against himself,
 
15.  *     Although he tender his excuses.
 
16.  *     Stir not thy tongue herewith to hasten it.
 
17.  *     Lo! upon Us (resteth) the putting together thereof and the reading thereof.
 
18.  *     And when We read it, follow thou the reading;
 
19.  *     Then lo! upon Us (resteth) the explanation thereof.
 
20.  *     Nay, but ye do love the fleeting Now
 
21.  *     And neglect the Hereafter.
 
22.  *     That day will faces be resplendent,
 
23.  *     Looking toward their Lord;
 
24.  *     And that day will other faces be despondent,
 
25.  *     Thou wilt know that some great disaster is about to fall on them.
 
26.  *     Nay, but when the life cometh up to the throat
 
27.  *     And men say: Where is the wizard (who can save him now)?
 
28.  *     And he knoweth that it is the parting;
 
29.  *     And agony is heaped on agony;
 
30.  *     Unto thy Lord that day will be the driving.
 
31.  *     For he neither trusted, nor prayed.
 
32.  *     But he denied and flouted.
 
33.  *     Then went he to his folk with glee.
 
34.  *     Nearer unto thee and nearer,
 
35.  *     Again nearer unto thee and nearer (is the doom).
 
36.  *     Thinketh man that he is to be left aimless?
 
37.  *     Was he not a drop of fluid which gushed forth?
 
38.  *     Then he became a clot; then (Allah) shaped and fashioned
 
39.  *     And made of him a pair, the male and female.
 
40.  *     Is not He (Who doeth so) Able to bring the dead to life?