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shakir
 
1.  *     I swear by the emissary winds, sent one after another (for men's benefit),
 
2.  *     By the raging hurricanes,
 
3.  *     Which scatter clouds to their destined places,
 
4.  *     Then separate them one from another,
 
5.  *     Then I swear by the angels who bring down the revelation,
 
6.  *     To clear or to warn.
 
7.  *     Most surely what you are threatened with must come to pass.
 
8.  *     So when the stars are made to lose their light,
 
9.  *     And when the heaven is rent asunder,
 
10.  *     And when the mountains are carried away as dust,
 
11.  *     And when the messengers are gathered at their appointed time
 
12.  *     To what day is the doom fixed?
 
13.  *     To the day of decision.
 
14.  *     And what will make you comprehend what the day of decision is?
 
15.  *     Woe on that day to the rejecters.
 
16.  *     Did We not destroy the former generations?
 
17.  *     Then did We follow them up with later ones.
 
18.  *     Even thus shall We deal with the guilty.
 
19.  *     Woe on that day to the rejecters.
 
20.  *     Did We not create you from contemptible water?
 
21.  *     Then We placed it in a secure resting-place,
 
22.  *     Till an appointed term,
 
23.  *     So We proportion it-- how well are We at proportioning (things).
 
24.  *     Woe on that day to the rejecters.
 
25.  *     Have We not made the earth to draw together to itself,
 
26.  *     The living and the dead,
 
27.  *     And made therein lofty mountains, and given you to drink of sweet water?
 
28.  *     Woe on that day to the rejecters.
 
29.  *     Walk on to that which you called a lie.
 
30.  *     Walk on to the covering having three branches,
 
31.  *     Neither having the coolness of the shade nor availing against the flame.
 
32.  *     Surely it sends up sparks like palaces,
 
33.  *     As if they were tawny camels.
 
34.  *     Woe on that day to the rejecters.
 
35.  *     This is the day on which they shall not speak,
 
36.  *     And permission shall not be given to them so that they should offer excuses.
 
37.  *     Woe on that day to the rejecters.
 
38.  *     This is the day of decision: We have gathered you and those of yore.
 
39.  *     So if you have a plan, plan against Me (now).
 
40.  *     Woe on that day to the rejecters.
 
41.  *     Surely those who guard (against evil) shall be amid shades and fountains,
 
42.  *     And fruits such as they desire.
 
43.  *     Eat and drink pleasantly because of what you did.
 
44.  *     Surely thus do We reward the doers of good.
 
45.  *     Woe on that day to the rejecters.
 
46.  *     Eat and enjoy yourselves for a little; surely you are guilty.
 
47.  *     Woe on that day to the rejecters.
 
48.  *     And where it is said to them: Bow down, they do not bow down.
 
49.  *     Woe on that day to the rejecters.
 
50.  *     In what announcement, then, after it, will they believe?