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| 1. * | When the Sky is rent asunder. (The high Space will be explored and Astronomy will bring knowledge of the Cosmos). |
| 2. * | It will listen to its Lord for that is what it has been decreed to do. |
| 3. * | And when the earth is spread out. (It becomes widely inhabited). |
| 4. * | And casts out whatever is in it and becomes void. (The earth will bring forth its fossils and minerals through Archaeology, drilling and mining). |
| 5. * | It will listen to its Lord for that is what it has been decreed to do. |
| 6. * | O Man! Behold, You have been toiling hard toward your Lord - painfully toiling - then you shall meet Him. |
| 7. * | Then whoever is given his Book in his right hand, (The follower of this Revelation is indeed blessed, for), |
| 8. * | He truly reckons the decisions of his life with ease. |
| 9. * | And returns rejoicing to his folk (the Ideologically synchronous minds). |
| 10. * | But as for him who is given his Book behind his back (he who has turned his back to the Book, looking back to the ancestral traditions), |
| 11. * | He will be inviting upon himself chaos. |
| 12. * | And enter the Blazing Flame. |
| 13. * | Behold, he used to enjoy the company of his own kind. |
| 14. * | For, behold, he deemed that life would never quit revolving like this. |
| 15. * | Nay, but behold, his Lord did see all his mettle. ('Bihi' = In him = His true worth = His mettle). |
| 16. * | Oh, I call to witness the Rosy Afterglow of sunset. |
| 17. * | And the Night and all that it enshrouds. |
| 18. * | And the Moon as it steadily grows to her fullness. |
| 19. * | That you will traverse higher and higher from one plane to another. (Civilizations will keep advancing in sciences, and individuals will always have a chance to grow in goodness. Furthermore, evolution of the 'Self' will carry on in the life to come). |
| 20. * | What, then, is the matter with them that they believe not (in a higher form of life?) |
| 21. * | And when the Qur'an is recited to them, they prostrate not! (They adore not and humble themselves not before the eloquence, Wisdom and Majesty of the Divine Word!) |
| 22. * | Nay, but the rejecters belie. |
| 23. * | And Allah is best Knower of what they hide. (Their idols, peer pressure, traditions, malice, schemes, vested interests). |
| 24. * | So give them the tiding of an awful doom. |
| 25. * | Except to those who choose to be graced with belief and do acts that help people - for them is a reward unending. |