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1.  *     BY the star-bespangled Heaven!
 
2.  *     By the promised Day!
 
3.  *     By the witness and the witnessed!
 
4.  *     Cursed the masters of the trench
 
5.  *     Of the fuel-fed fire,
 
6.  *     When they sat around it
 
7.  *     Witnesses of what they inflicted on the believers!
 
8.  *     Nor did they torment them but for their faith in God, the Mighty, the Praiseworthy:
 
9.  *     His the kingdom of the Heavens and of the Earth; and God is the witness of everything.
 
10.  *     Verily, those who vexed the believers, men and women, and repented not, doth the torment of Hell, and the torment of the burning, await.
 
11.  *     But for those who shall have believed and done the things that be right, are the Gardens beneath whose shades the rivers flow. This the immense bliss!
 
12.  *     Verily, right terrible will be thy Lord's vengeance!
 
13.  *     He it is who produceth all things, and causeth them to return;
 
14.  *     And is He the Indulgent, the Loving;
 
15.  *     Possessor of the Glorious throne;
 
16.  *     Worker of that he willeth.
 
17.  *     Hath not the story reached thee of the hosts
 
18.  *     Of Pharaoh and Themoud?
 
19.  *     Nay! the infields are all for denial:
 
20.  *     But God surroundeth them from behind.
 
21.  *     Yet it is a glorious Koran,
 
22.  *     Written on the preserved Table.