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A questioner might ask about the catastrophe that is bound to fall.
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Upon those who deny the Truth. None can repel it.
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From Allah, Lord of the Stairways of Ascent. (He enables all things to ascend, evolve and become what they are destined to be).
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The Universal forces and the Divine Energy ascend unto Him in a Day the measure of which is fifty thousand years.
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Therefore, you shall do your part with a most handsome steadfastness.
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Behold, they see it far away.
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But We see it near.
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The Day when the sky will melt away.
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And the mountains will become as flakes of wool.
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And a friend will not ask about his friend.
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Even though they will be within sight of one another. The guilty will desire to give his own children to ransom himself from suffering of the Day.
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And his wife and his brother.
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And his whole family and the tribe that raised and sheltered him.
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And all who lived on earth - all of them if then it might save him.
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But nay! Behold, it is a raging flame.
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That burns all coverings and defenses.
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It calls him who turned and fled from Truth.
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And hoarded wealth, and withheld it.
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Verily, man is created with an anxious disposition.
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Nervous when harm touches him.
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And niggardly when good reaches him.
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Except the MUSALLEEN. (Who are Musalleen? NOT the so-called ritualistic praying ones).
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----- MUSALLEEN are those who always follow the Divine System.
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----- And in whose wealth and possessions is a KNOWN RIGHT.
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For him who asks for help, and for him who is deprived.
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----- (And Musalleen are) those who have conviction in the Day of Judgment. And hence, in the Law of Recompense.
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----- And those who are fearful of their Lord's Law of Requital.
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----- (They know that) Verily, their Lord's Law of Requital makes no exceptions, so that none can feel secure.
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----- Those men and women who preserve their chastity.
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----- They have intimate relations only with their spouses - that is, those who are rightfully theirs through wedlock. For such relationship they are free of blame. ('Aw' = Or = That is = And. (23:5-7)).
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But anyone who seeks beyond this, those are the transgressors.
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----- (And Musalleen are those) who guard their trusts and duties assigned to them, and their pledges, as a shepherd guards his flock.
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----- And those who are truthful in witness and stand by their testimony.
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----- And those who consolidate and protect the Divine System.
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----- (Musalleen are the ones who collectively build it on earth and) inherit the Paradise in the Hereafter. Such are the honored ones.
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What, then, is the matter with the rejecters that they rush to and fro before you, confused? (Instead of joining hands).
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On the right and on the left, in groups!
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Does everyone of them hope to enter the Garden of Bliss with this attitude?
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Nay! Verily, they know full well what potentials We created them with.
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But nay! I call to Witness the Lord of all points in the East and all points in the West, behold, We are Able -
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To replace them by others better than they are. For, there is nothing to prevent Us.
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Let them chat and play until they meet their Day which they are promised.
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The Day they shall come forth in haste from their dead states, as if racing toward a goal post.
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With their eyes subdued in shame, humiliation overwhelming them. Such is the Day which they were promised again and again.
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