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| 1. * | Of what ask they of one another? |
| 2. * | Of the great NEWS. |
| 3. * | The theme of their disputes. |
| 4. * | Nay! they shall certainly knows its truth! |
| 5. * | Again. Nay! they shall certainly know it. |
| 6. * | Have we not made the Earth a couch? |
| 7. * | And the mountains its tent-stakes? |
| 8. * | We have created you of two sexes, |
| 9. * | And ordained your sleep for rest, |
| 10. * | And ordained the night as a mantle, |
| 11. * | And ordained the day for gaining livelihood, |
| 12. * | And built above you seven solid heavens, |
| 13. * | And placed therein a burning lamp; |
| 14. * | And we send down water in abundance from the rain-clouds, |
| 15. * | That we may bring forth by it corn and herbs, |
| 16. * | And gardens thick with trees. |
| 17. * | Lo! the day of Severance is fixed; |
| 18. * | The day when there shall be a blast on the trumpet, and ye shall come in crowds, |
| 19. * | And the heaven shall be opened and be full of portals, |
| 20. * | And the mountains shall be set in motion, and melt into thin vapour. |
| 21. * | Hell truly shall be a place of snares, |
| 22. * | The home of transgressors, |
| 23. * | To abide therein ages; |
| 24. * | No coolness shall they taste therein nor any drink, |
| 25. * | Save boiling water and running sores; |
| 26. * | Meet recompense! |
| 27. * | For they looked not forward to their account; |
| 28. * | And they gave the lie to our signs, charging them with falsehood; |
| 29. * | But we noted and wrote down all: |
| 30. * | Taste this then: and we will give you increase of nought but torment. |
| 31. * | But, for the God-fearing is a blissful abode, |
| 32. * | Enclosed gardens and vineyards; |
| 33. * | And damsels with swelling breasts, their peers in age, |
| 34. * | And a full cup: |
| 35. * | There shall they hear no vain discourse nor any falsehood: |
| 36. * | A recompense from thy Lord-sufficing gift!- |
| 37. * | Lord of the heavens and of the earth, and of all that between them lieth-the God of Mercy! But not a word shall they obtain from Him. |
| 38. * | On the day whereon the Spirit and the Angels shall be ranged in order, they shall not speak: save he whom the God of Mercy shall permit, and who shall say that which is right. |
| 39. * | This is the sure day. Whoso then will, let him take the path of return to his Lord. |
| 40. * | Verily, we warn you of a chastisement close at hand: The day on which a man shall see the deeds which his hands have sent before him; and when the unbeliever shall say, "Oh! would I were dust!" |