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| 1. * | By the clouds which scatter with SCATTERING, |
| 2. * | And those which bear their load, |
| 3. * | And by those which speed lightly along, |
| 4. * | And those which apportion by command! |
| 5. * | True, indeed, is that with which ye are threatened, |
| 6. * | And lo! the judgment will surely come. |
| 7. * | By the star-tracked heaven! |
| 8. * | Ye are discordant in what ye say; |
| 9. * | But whose turneth him from the truth, is turned from it by a divine decree. |
| 10. * | Perish the liars, |
| 11. * | Who are bewildered in the depths of ignorance! |
| 12. * | They ask, "When this day of judgment?" |
| 13. * | On that day they shall be tormented at the fire. |
| 14. * | Taste ye of this your torment, whose speedy coming ye challenged. |
| 15. * | But the God-fearing shall dwell amid gardens and fountains, |
| 16. * | Enjoying what their Lord hath given them, because, aforetime they were well- doers: |
| 17. * | But little of the night was it that they slept, |
| 18. * | And at dawn they prayed for pardon, |
| 19. * | And gave due share of their wealth to the suppliant and the outcast. |
| 20. * | On Earth are signs for men of firm belief, |
| 21. * | And also in your own selves: Will ye not then behold them? |
| 22. * | The Heaven hath sustenance for you, and it containeth that which you are promised. |
| 23. * | By the Lord then of the heaven and of the earth, I swear that this is the truth, even as ye speak yourselves. |
| 24. * | Hath the story reached thee of Abraham's honoured guests? |
| 25. * | When they went in unto him and said, "Peace!" he replied, "Peace:-they are strangers." |
| 26. * | And he went apart to his family, and brought a fatted calf, |
| 27. * | And set it before them. He said, "Eat ye not?" |
| 28. * | And he conceived a fear of them. They said to him, "Fear not;" and announced to him a wise son. |
| 29. * | His wife came up with outcry: she smote her face and said, "What I, old and barren!" |
| 30. * | They said, "Thus saith thy Lord. He truly is the Wise, the Knowing." |
| 31. * | Said he, "And what, O messengers, is your errand?" |
| 32. * | They said, "To a wicked people are we sent, |
| 33. * | To hurl upon them stones of clay, |
| 34. * | Destined by thy Lord for men guilty of excesses." |
| 35. * | And we brought forth the believers who were in the city: |
| 36. * | But we found not in it but one family of Muslims. |
| 37. * | And signs we left in it for those who dread the afflictive chastisement,- |
| 38. * | And in Moses: when we sent him to Pharaoh with manifest power: |
| 39. * | But relying on his forces he turned his back and said, "Sorcerer, or Possessed." |
| 40. * | So we seized him and his hosts and cast them into the sea; for of all blame was he worthy. |
| 41. * | And in Ad: when we sent against them the desolating blast: |
| 42. * | It touched not aught over which it came, but it turned it to dust. |
| 43. * | And in Themoud: when it was said to them, "Enjoy yourselves for yet a while." |
| 44. * | But they rebelled against their Lord's command: so the tempest took them as they watched its coming. |
| 45. * | They were not able to stand upright, and could not help themselves. |
| 46. * | And we destroyed the people of Noah, before them; for an impious people were they. |
| 47. * | And the Heaven-with our hands have we built it up, and given it its expanse; |
| 48. * | And the Earth-we have stretched it out like a carpet; and how smoothly have we spread it forth! |
| 49. * | And of everything have we created pairs: that haply ye may reflect. |
| 50. * | Fly then to God: I come to you from him a plain warner. |
| 51. * | And set not up another god with God: I come to you from him a plain warner. |
| 52. * | Even thus came there no apostle to those who flourished before them, but they exclaimed, "Sorcerer, or Possessed." |
| 53. * | Have they made a legacy to one another of this scoff? Yes, they are a rebel people. |
| 54. * | Turn away, then, from them, and thou shalt not incur reproach: |
| 55. * | Yet warn them, for, in truth, warning will profit the believers. |
| 56. * | I have not created Djinn and men, but that they should worship me: |
| 57. * | I require not sustenance from them, neither require I that they feed me: |
| 58. * | Verily, God is the sole sustainer: possessed of might: the unshaken! |
| 59. * | Therefore to those who injure thee shall be a fate like the fate of their fellows of old. Let them not challenge me to hasten it. |
| 60. * | Woe then to the infidels, because of their threatened day. |