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Kaf.
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By the glorious Koran:
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They marvel forsooth that one of themselves hath come to them charged with warnings. "This," say the infidels, "is a marvellous thing:
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What! when dead and turned to dust shall we. . . .? Far off is such a return as this?"
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Now know we what the earth consumeth of them, and with us is a Book in which account is kept.
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But they have treated the truth which hath come to them as falsehood; perplexed therefore is their state.
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Will they not look up to the heaven above them, and consider how we have reared it and decked it forth, and that there are no flaws therein?
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And as to the earth, we have spread it out, and have thrown the mountains upon it, and have caused an upgrowth in it of all beauteous kinds of plants,
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For insight and admonition to every servant who loveth to turn to God:
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And we send down the rain from Heaven with its blessings, by which we cause gardens to spring forth and the grain of harvest,
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And the tall palm trees with date-bearing branches one above the other
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For man's nourishment: And life give we thereby to a dead country. So also shall be the resurrection.
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Ere the days of these (Meccans) the people of Noah, and the men of Rass and Themoud, treated their prophets as impostors:
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And Ad and Pharaoh, and the brethren of Lot and the dwellers in the forest, and the people of Tobba, all gave the lie to their prophets: justly, therefore, were the menaces inflicted.
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Are we wearied out with the first creation? Yet are they in doubt with regard to a new creation!
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We created man: and we know what his soul whispereth to him, and we are closer to him than his neck-vein.
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When the two angels charged with taking account shall take it, one sitting on the right hand, the other on the left:
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Not a word doth he utter, but there is a watcher with him ready to note it down:
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And the stupor of certain death cometh upon him: "This is what thou wouldst have shunned"-
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And there shall be a blast on the trumpet,-it is the threatened day!
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And every soul shall come,-an angel with it urging it along, and an angel to witness against it-
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Saith he, "Of this day didst thou live in heedlessness: but we have taken off thy veil from thee, and thy sight is becoming sharp this day."
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And he who is at this side shall say, "This is what I am prepared with against thee."
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And God will say, "Cast into Hell, ye twain, every infidel, every hardened one,
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The hinderer of the good, the transgressor, the doubter,
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Who set up other gods with God. Cast ye him into the fierce torment."
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He who is at his side shall say, "O our Lord! I led him not astray, yet was he in an error wide of truth."
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He shall say, "Wrangle not in my presence. I had plied you beforehand with menaces:
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My doom changeth not, and I am not unjust to man."
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On that day will we cry to Hell, "Art thou full?" And it shall say, "Are there more?"
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And not far from thence shall Paradise be brought near unto the Pious:
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- "This is what ye have been promised: to every one who hath turned in penitence to God and kept his laws;
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Who hath feared the God of Mercy in secret, and come to him with a contrite heart:
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Enter it in peace: this is the day of Eternity."
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There shall they have all that they can desire: and our's will it be to augment their bliss:
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And how many generations have we destroyed ere the days of these (Meccans), mightier than they in strength! Search ye then the land. Is there any escape?
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Lo! herein is warning for him who hath a heart, or giveth ear, and is himself an eye-witness.
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We created the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in six days, and no weariness touched us.
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Wherefore put up with what they say, and celebrate the praise of thy Lord before sunrise and before sunset:
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And praise Him in the night: and perform the two final prostrations.
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And list for the day whereon the crier shall cry from a place near to every one alike:
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The day on which men shall in truth hear that shout will be the day of their coming forth from the grave.
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Verily, we cause to live, and we cause to die. To us shall all return.
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On the day when the earth shall swiftly cleave asunder over the dead, will this gathering be easy to Us.
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We know best what the infidels say: and thou art not to compel them. Warn then by the Koran those who fear my menace.
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