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1.  *     What are they asking about?
 
2.  *     About the Great News!
 
3.  *     On which they disagree.
 
4.  *     Nay, they will soon come to know.
 
5.  *     Nay, again, they will soon come to know.
 
6.  *     Did We not make the earth a cradle for you?
 
7.  *     And the mountains as pegs?
 
8.  *     And We have created you in pairs.
 
9.  *     And We have made sleep so that you can rest.
 
10.  *     And We have made the night as a cloak.
 
11.  *     And made the day, life. ('Ma'ash' = Economy = Subsistence = All activities of life = The state of living).
 
12.  *     And We have built above you seven Cosmic Systems.
 
13.  *     And We have placed a Dazzling Lamp.
 
14.  *     And We send down from the rainy clouds abundant water.
 
15.  *     Thereby to bring forth grain and plant.
 
16.  *     And gardens of dense foliage.
 
17.  *     Behold, the Day of Decision is a thing appointed.
 
18.  *     A Day when the Trumpet is blown, and you come in throngs.
 
19.  *     When the gates of the sky are flung open. (Mankind learn about the high space).
 
20.  *     And the 'great ones' lose power as if they were mirage. (20:105), (56:5), (77:10), (81:3).
 
21.  *     Behold, Hell lurks in ambush.
 
22.  *     A home for the transgressors.
 
23.  *     They will abide in it for ages. (Hell is not forever. Allah's Grace comes to rescue the dwellers of the Hellfire (6:128), (11:107), (40:12). While the abode of Paradise is Eternal).
 
24.  *     Therein they taste not coolness of comfort nor drink of satisfaction.
 
25.  *     Only burning anguish and ice-cold darkness. (38:37).
 
26.  *     A befitting requital.
 
27.  *     For, behold, they never hoped to be held accountable.
 
28.  *     And they called Our Messages false with an adamant denial.
 
29.  *     But We place on Record everything.
 
30.  *     So, now, taste nothing but increasing punishment.
 
31.  *     Behold, there is supreme fulfillment for those who walk aright.
 
32.  *     Beautiful gardens and vineyards.
 
33.  *     And splendid companions, well-matched. (56:37).
 
34.  *     And a cup of delight overflowing.
 
35.  *     They shall hear no senseless talk, nor falsification therein.
 
36.  *     Reward from your Lord, a generous gift.
 
37.  *     Lord of the heavens and the earth and all that is in between them, the Beneficent. None has the power to lecture Him.
 
38.  *     On the Day when the Divine Energy and the Universal forces stand forth in ranks, none will speak but he whom the Beneficent allows and say only what is right.
 
39.  *     That Day will be the Moment of Truth. So whoever wills, let him take the path that leads toward his Sustainer.
 
40.  *     Behold, We warn you of a retribution near at hand. A Day when every person will see what his own hands have sent forth. And when the denier of the Truth will say, "Oh, I wish I were mere dust."