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Ha. Mim.
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By this clear Book!
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See! on a blessed night have we sent it down, for we would warn mankind:
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On the night wherein all things are disposed in wisdom,
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By virtue of our behest. Lo! we have ever sent forth Apostles,
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A mercy from thy Lord: he truly heareth and knoweth all things-
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Lord of the Heavens and of the Earth and of all that is between them,-if ye be firm in faith-
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There is no God but He!-He maketh alive and killeth!-Your Lord and the Lord of your sires of old!
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Yet with doubts do they disport them.
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But mark them on the day when the Heaven shall give out a palpable SMOKE,
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Which shall enshroud mankind: this will be an afflictive torment.
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They will cry, "Our Lord! relieve us from this torment: see! we are believers."
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But how did warning avail them, when an undoubted apostle had come to them;
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And they turned their backs on him, and said, "Taught by others, possessed?"
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Were we to relieve you from the plague even a little, ye would certainly relapse.
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On the day when we shall fiercely put forth our great fierceness, we will surely take vengeance on them!
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Of old, before their time, had we proved the people of Pharaoh, when a noble apostle presented himself to them.
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Send away with me, cried he, "the servants of God; for I am an apostle worthy of all credit:
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And exalt not yourselves against God, for I come to you with undoubted power;
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And I take refuge with Him who is my Lord and your Lord, that ye stone me not:
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And if ye believe me not, at least separate yourselves from me."
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And he cried to his Lord, "That these are a wicked people."
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March forth then, said God, with my servants by night, for ye will be pursued.
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And leave behind you the cleft sea: they are a drowned host.
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How many a garden and fountain did they quit!
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And corn fields and noble dwellings!
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And pleasures in which they rejoiced them!
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So was it: and we gave them as a heritage to another people.
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Nor Heaven nor Earth wept for them, nor was their sentence respited;
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And we rescued the children of Israel from a degrading affliction-
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From Pharaoh, for he was haughty, given to excess.
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And we chose them, in our prescience, above all peoples,
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And we shewed them miracles wherein was their clear trial.
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Yet these infidels say,
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There is but our first death, neither shall we be raised again: Bring back our sires, if ye be men of truth.
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Are they better than the people of Tobba,
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And those who flourished before them whom we destroyed for their evil deeds?
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We have not created the Heavens and the Earth and whatever is between them in sport:
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We have not created them but for a serious end: but the greater part of them understand it not.
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Verily the day of severing shall be the appointed time of all:
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A day when the master shall not at all be aided by the servant, neither shall they be helped;
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Save those on whom God shall have mercy: for He is the mighty, the merciful.
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Verily the tree of Ez-Zakkoum
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Shall be the sinner's food:
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Like dregs of oil shall it boil up in their bellies,
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Like the boiling of scalding water.
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Seize ye him, and drag him into the mid-fire;
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Then pour on his head of the tormenting boiling water.
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Taste this:' for thou forsooth art the mighty, the honourable! D
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Lo! this is that of which ye doubted.
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But the pious shall be in a secure place,
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Amid gardens and fountains,
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Clothed in silk and richest robes, facing one another:
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Thus shall it be: and we will wed them to the virgins with large dark eyes:
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Therein shall they call, secure, for every kind of fruit;
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Therein, their first death passed, shall they taste death no more; and He shall keep them from the pains of Hell:-
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'Tis the gracious bounty of thy Lord! This is the great felicity.
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We have made this Koran easy for thee in thine own tongue, that they may take the warning.
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Therefore wait thou, for they are waiting.
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