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1.  *     By the DAYBREAK a
 
2.  *     nd ten nights.
 
3.  *     By that which is double and that which is single,
 
4.  *     By the night when it pursues its course!
 
5.  *     Is there not in this an oath becoming a man of sense?
 
6.  *     Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with Ad,
 
7.  *     At Irem adorned with pillars,
 
8.  *     Whose like have not been reared in these lands!
 
9.  *     And with Themoud who hewed out the rocks in the valley;
 
10.  *     And with Pharaoh the impaler;
 
11.  *     Who all committed excesses in the lands,
 
12.  *     And multiplied wickedness therein.
 
13.  *     Wherefore thy Lord let loose on them the scourge of chastisement,
 
14.  *     For thy Lord standeth on a watch tower.
 
15.  *     As to man, when his Lord trieth him and honoureth him and is bounteous to him, Then saith he, "My Lord honoureth me:"
 
16.  *     But when he proveth him and limiteth his gifts to him, He saith, "My Lord despiseth me."
 
17.  *     Aye. But ye honour not the orphan,
 
18.  *     Nor urge ye one another to feed the poor,
 
19.  *     And ye devour heritages, devouring greedily,
 
20.  *     And ye love riches with exceeding love.
 
21.  *     Aye. But when the earth shall be crushed with crushing, crushing,
 
22.  *     And thy Lord shall come and the angels rank on rank,
 
23.  *     And Hell on that day shall be moved up,-Man shall on that day remember himself. But how shall remembrance help him?
 
24.  *     He shall say, Oh! would that I had prepared for this my life!
 
25.  *     On that day none shall punish as God punisheth,
 
26.  *     And none shall bind with such bonds as He.
 
27.  *     Oh, thou soul which art at rest,
 
28.  *     Return to thy Lord, pleased, and pleasing him:
 
29.  *     Enter thou among my servants,
 
30.  *     And enter thou my Paradise.