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The Inevitable Reality.
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How awesome is the Inevitable Reality?
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Ah, what can give you an idea what the Inevitable Reality is!
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Thamud and Aad denied the oncoming Uproar.
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As for Thamud, they were destroyed by a thunderous blast.
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And as for Aad, they were annihilated with raging hurricane winds.
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Which He made it rage upon them for seven long nights and eight long days. Such that you could imagine those people as uprooted hollow palm-trunks. (54:20).
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Now, can you see any remnants of them?
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And there came Pharaoh, and many others before him, and the townships that were overthrown. All of them committed fault upon fault.
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For, they disobeyed the respective Messenger of their Lord. Consequently, He grasped them with a firm grasp.
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Behold! When waters topped the levels, We carried you upon the watercraft.
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(These events are conveyed to you) so that We might make it a lesson for you, and that any attentive ear might take it to memory.
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Hence, think when the Trumpet will be sounded with a single Blast.
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And the earth will be moved and the mountains, and struck with a stroke.
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Then, on that Day when the Episode will come to pass.
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And when the sky will be rent asunder, such that frail will it be that Day.
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And the Divine Laws in Nature will rally around and your Lord's Supreme Control will reign over eight Universes that Day. (Instead of the current seven).
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On the Day you will be brought, not a single hidden deed of yours will remain hidden.
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Then he who is given his record in his right hand, will say, "Come all of you around! Read this my record.
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Behold, I always thought that my account would be given to me."
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Then he will be in a state of Bliss.
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In a lofty Garden.
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With its fruit at hand.
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Eat and drink gleefully for what you did in the days past.
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But as for him who is given his record in his left hand, he will say, "Oh, I wish I was never given my record.
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And knew not my account.
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Oh, could this be the end of me!
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Of no help is my wealth.
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Vanquished is all my control."
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Take him and shackle him! (Halt from further development).
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And then hurl him in the blazing flame of his deeds.
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And then make him a link in the very long chain of people like him. (Seventy cubits = Very long).
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Behold, he failed to grace himself with faith in Allah, the Tremendous.
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And arranged not to feed the needy.
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And so, he has no friend here today.
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Nor any food but the discarded shreds he gave to others.
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Which none eat but those who faulted through life.
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But nay, I call to witness all that you see (that actions have consequences of their like).
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And all that you see not (the subtle progression of the Law of Requital).
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Behold, this is indeed the revealed Word in the dialect of a noble Messenger.
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This is not the speech of a poet. Seldom do you reach conviction.
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Nor is it the word of a soothsayer. Little of your intellect do you bring to use.
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It is a Revelation from the Lord of the Worlds.
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And if he had ascribed his sayings unto Us.
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We would have taken him by the right hand.
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And would have cut off his Aorta.
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And none of you could stop Us from doing that.
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But, verily, it is a Reminder and a giver of eminence to those who wish to walk aright.
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And behold, We know well that among you will be deniers.
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And behold, this denial will become a source of regret for the rejecters.
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For, verily, it is Truth Absolute.
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Therefore, work hard to manifest the Glory of your Lord's Tremendous Name.
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