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1.  *     I swear by those who draw themselves out in ranks
 
2.  *     Then those who drive away with reproof,
 
3.  *     Then those who recite, being mindful,
 
4.  *     Most surely your Allah is One:
 
5.  *     The Lord of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, and Lord of the easts.
 
6.  *     Surely We have adorned the nearest heaven with an adornment, the stars,
 
7.  *     And (there is) a safeguard against every rebellious Shaitan.
 
8.  *     They cannot listen to the exalted assembly and they are thrown at from every side,
 
9.  *     Being driven off, and for them is a perpetual chastisement,
 
10.  *     Except him who snatches off but once, then there follows him a brightly shining flame.
 
11.  *     Then ask them whether they are stronger in creation or those (others) whom We have created. Surely We created them of firm clay.
 
12.  *     Nay! you wonder while they mock,
 
13.  *     And when they are reminded, they mind not,
 
14.  *     And when they see a sign they incite one another to scoff,
 
15.  *     And they say: This is nothing but clear magic:
 
16.  *     What! when we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we then certainly be raised,
 
17.  *     Or our fathers of yore?
 
18.  *     Say: Aye! and you shall be abject.
 
19.  *     So it shall only be a single cry, when lo! they shall see.
 
20.  *     And they shall say: O woe to us! this is the day of requital.
 
21.  *     This is the day of the judgment which you called a lie.
 
22.  *     Gather together those who were unjust and their associates, and what they used to worship
 
23.  *     Besides Allah, then lead them to the way to hell.
 
24.  *     And stop them, for they shall be questioned:
 
25.  *     What is the matter with you that you do not help each other?
 
26.  *     Nay! on that day they shall be submissive.
 
27.  *     And some of them shall advance towards others, questioning each other.
 
28.  *     They shall say: Surely you used to come to us from the right side.
 
29.  *     They shall say: Nay, you (yourselves) were not believers;
 
30.  *     And we had no authority over you, but you were an inordinate people;
 
31.  *     So the sentence of our Lord has come to pass against us: (now) we shall surely taste;
 
32.  *     So we led you astray, for we ourselves were erring.
 
33.  *     So they shall on that day be sharers in the chastisement one with another.
 
34.  *     Surely thus do We deal with the guilty.
 
35.  *     Surely they used to behave proudly when it was said to them: There is no god but Allah;
 
36.  *     And to say: What! shall we indeed give up our gods for the sake of a mad poet?
 
37.  *     Nay: he has come with the truth and verified the messengers.
 
38.  *     Most surely you will taste the painful punishment.
 
39.  *     And you shall not be rewarded except (for) what you did.
 
40.  *     Save the servants of Allah, the purified ones.
 
41.  *     For them is a known sustenance,
 
42.  *     Fruits, and they shall be highly honored,
 
43.  *     In gardens of pleasure,
 
44.  *     On thrones, facing each other.
 
45.  *     A bowl shall be made to go round them from water running out of springs,
 
46.  *     White, delicious to those who drink.
 
47.  *     There shall be no trouble in it, nor shall they be exhausted therewith.
 
48.  *     And with them shall be those who restrain the eyes, having beautiful eyes;
 
49.  *     As if they were eggs carefully protected.
 
50.  *     Then shall some of them advance to others, questioning each other.
 
51.  *     A speaker from among them shall say: Surely I had a comrade of mine,
 
52.  *     Who said: What! are you indeed of those who accept (the truth)?
 
53.  *     What! when we are dead and have become dust and bones, shall we then be certainly brought to judgment?
 
54.  *     He shall say: Will you look on?
 
55.  *     Then he looked down and saw him in the midst of hell.
 
56.  *     He shall say: By Allah! you had almost caused me to perish;
 
57.  *     And had it not been for the favor of my Lord, I would certainly have been among those brought up.
 
58.  *     Is it then that we are not going to die,
 
59.  *     Except our previous death? And we shall not be chastised?
 
60.  *     Most surely this is the mighty achievement.
 
61.  *     For the like of this then let the workers work.
 
62.  *     Is this better as an entertainment or the tree of Zaqqum?
 
63.  *     Surely We have made it to be a trial to the unjust.
 
64.  *     Surely it is a tree that-grows in the bottom of the hell;
 
65.  *     Its produce is as it were the heads of the serpents.
 
66.  *     Then most surely they shall eat of it and fill (their) bellies with it.
 
67.  *     Then most surely they shall have after it to drink of a mixture prepared in boiling water.
 
68.  *     Then most surely their return shall be to hell.
 
69.  *     Surely they found their fathers going astray,
 
70.  *     So in their footsteps they are being hastened on.
 
71.  *     And certainly most of the ancients went astray before them,
 
72.  *     And certainly We sent among them warners.
 
73.  *     Then see how was the end of those warned,
 
74.  *     Except the servants of Allah, the purified ones.
 
75.  *     And Nuh did certainly call upon Us, and most excellent answerer of prayer are We.
 
76.  *     And We delivered him and his followers from the mighty distress.
 
77.  *     And We made his offspring the survivors.
 
78.  *     And We perpetuated to him (praise) among the later generations.
 
79.  *     Peace and salutation to Nuh among the nations.
 
80.  *     Thus do We surely reward the doers of good.
 
81.  *     Surely he was of Our believing servants.
 
82.  *     Then We drowned the others
 
83.  *     And most surely Ibrahim followed his way.
 
84.  *     When he came to his Lord with a free heart,
 
85.  *     When he said to his father and his people: What is it that you worship?
 
86.  *     A lie-- gods besides Allah-- do you desire?
 
87.  *     What is then your idea about the Lord of the worlds?
 
88.  *     Then he looked at the stars, looking up once,
 
89.  *     Then he said: Surely I am sick (of your worshipping these).
 
90.  *     So they went away from him, turning back.
 
91.  *     Then he turned aside to their gods secretly and said: What! do you not eat?
 
92.  *     What is the matter with you that you do not speak?
 
93.  *     Then he turned against them secretly, smiting them with the right hand.
 
94.  *     So they (people) advanced towards him, hastening.
 
95.  *     Said he: What! do you worship what you hew out?
 
96.  *     And Allah has created you and what you make.
 
97.  *     They said: Build for him a furnace, then cast him into the burning fire.
 
98.  *     And they desired a war against him, but We brought them low.
 
99.  *     And he said: Surely I fly to my lord; He will guide me.
 
100.  *     My Lord! grant me of the doers of good deeds.
 
101.  *     So We gave him the good news of a boy, possessing forbearance.
 
102.  *     And when he attained to working with him, he said: O my son! surely I have seen in a dream that I should sacrifice you; consider then what you see. He said: O my father! do what you are commanded; if Allah please, you will find me of the patient ones.
 
103.  *     So when they both submitted and he threw him down upon his forehead,
 
104.  *     And We called out to him saying: O Ibrahim!
 
105.  *     You have indeed shown the truth of the vision; surely thus do We reward the doers of good:
 
106.  *     Most surely this is a manifest trial.
 
107.  *     And We ransomed him with a Feat sacrifice.
 
108.  *     And We perpetuated (praise) to him among the later generations.
 
109.  *     Peace be on Ibrahim.
 
110.  *     Thus do We reward the doers of good.
 
111.  *     Surely he was one of Our believing servants.
 
112.  *     And We gave him the good news of Ishaq, a prophet among the good ones.
 
113.  *     And We showered Our blessings on him and on Ishaq; and of their offspring are the doers of good, and (also) those who are clearly unjust to their own souls.
 
114.  *     And certainly We conferred a favor on Musa and Haroun.
 
115.  *     And We delivered them both and their people from the mighty distress.
 
116.  *     And We helped them, so they were the vanquishers.
 
117.  *     And We gave them both the Book that made (things) clear.
 
118.  *     And We guided them both on the right way.
 
119.  *     And We perpetuated (praise) to them among the later generations.
 
120.  *     Peace be on Musa and Haroun.
 
121.  *     Even thus do We reward the doers of good.
 
122.  *     Surely they were both of Our believing servants.
 
123.  *     And Ilyas was most surely of the messengers.
 
124.  *     When he said to his people: Do you not guard (against evil)?
 
125.  *     What! do you call upon Ba'l and forsake the best of the creators,
 
126.  *     Allah, your Lord and the Lord of your fathers of yore?
 
127.  *     But they called him a liar, therefore they shall most surely be brought up.
 
128.  *     But not the servants of Allah, the purified ones.
 
129.  *     And We perpetuated to him (praise) among the later generations.
 
130.  *     Peace be on Ilyas.
 
131.  *     Even thus do We reward the doers of good.
 
132.  *     Surely he was one of Our believing servants.
 
133.  *     And Lut was most surely of the messengers.
 
134.  *     When We delivered him and his followers, all--
 
135.  *     Except an old woman (who was) amongst those who tarried.
 
136.  *     Then We destroyed the others.
 
137.  *     And most surely you pass by them in the morning,
 
138.  *     And at night; do you not then understand?
 
139.  *     And Yunus was most surely of the messengers.
 
140.  *     When he ran away to a ship completely laden,
 
141.  *     So he shared (with them), but was of those who are cast off.
 
142.  *     So the fish swallowed him while he did that for which he blamed himself
 
143.  *     But had it not been that he was of those who glorify (Us),
 
144.  *     He would certainly have tarried in its belly to the day when they are raised.
 
145.  *     Then We cast him on to the vacant surface of the earth while he was sick.
 
146.  *     And We caused to grow up for him a gourdplant.
 
147.  *     And We sent him to a hundred thousand, rather they exceeded.
 
148.  *     And they believed, so We gave them provision till a time.
 
149.  *     Then ask them whether your Lord has daughters and they have sons.
 
150.  *     Or did We create the angels females while they were witnesses?
 
151.  *     Now surely it is of their own lie that they say:
 
152.  *     Allah has begotten; and most surely they are liars.
 
153.  *     Has He chosen daughters in preference to sons?
 
154.  *     What is the matter with you, how is it that you judge?
 
155.  *     Will you not then mind?
 
156.  *     Or have you a clear authority?
 
157.  *     Then bring your book, if you are truthful.
 
158.  *     And they assert a relationship between Him and the jinn; and certainly the jinn do know that they shall surely be brought up;
 
159.  *     Glory be to Allah (for freedom) from what they describe;
 
160.  *     But not so the servants of Allah, the purified ones.
 
161.  *     So surely you and what you worship,
 
162.  *     Not against Him can you cause (any) to fall into trial,
 
163.  *     Save him who will go to hell.
 
164.  *     And there is none of us but has an assigned place,
 
165.  *     And most surely we are they who draw themselves out in ranks,
 
166.  *     And we are most surely they who declare the glory (of Allah).
 
167.  *     And surely they used to say:
 
168.  *     Had we a reminder from those of yore,
 
169.  *     We would certainly have been the servants of Allah-- the purified ones.
 
170.  *     But (now) they disbelieve in it, so they will come to know.
 
171.  *     And certainly Our word has already gone forth in respect of Our servants, the messengers:
 
172.  *     Most surely they shall be the assisted ones
 
173.  *     And most surely Our host alone shall be the victorious ones.
 
174.  *     Therefore turn away from them till a time,
 
175.  *     And (then) see them, so they too shall see.
 
176.  *     What! would they then hasten on Our chastisement?
 
177.  *     But when it shall descend in their court, evil shall then be the morning of the warned ones.
 
178.  *     And turn away from them till a time
 
179.  *     And (then) see, for they too shall see.
 
180.  *     Glory be to your Lord, the Lord of Honor, above what they describe.
 
181.  *     And peace be on the messengers.
 
182.  *     And all praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds.