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shakir
 
1.  *     I swear by the daybreak,
 
2.  *     And the ten nights,
 
3.  *     And the even and the odd,
 
4.  *     And the night when it departs.
 
5.  *     Truly in that there is an oath for those who possess understanding.
 
6.  *     Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with Ad,
 
7.  *     (The people of) Aram, possessors of lofty buildings,
 
8.  *     The like of which were not created in the (other) cities;
 
9.  *     And (with) Samood, who hewed out the rocks in the valley,
 
10.  *     And (with) Firon, the lord of hosts,
 
11.  *     Who committed inordinacy in the cities,
 
12.  *     So they made great mischief therein?
 
13.  *     Therefore your Lord let down upon them a portion of the chastisement.
 
14.  *     Most sure!y your Lord is watching.
 
15.  *     And as for man, when his Lord tries him, then treats him with honor and makes him lead an easy life, he says: My Lord honors me.
 
16.  *     But when He tries him (differently), then straitens to him his means of subsistence, he says: My Lord has disgraced me.
 
17.  *     Nay! but you do not honor the orphan,
 
18.  *     Nor do you urge one another to feed the poor,
 
19.  *     And you eat away the heritage, devouring (everything) indiscriminately,
 
20.  *     And you love wealth with exceeding love.
 
21.  *     Nay! when the earth is made to crumble to pieces,
 
22.  *     And your Lord comes and (also) the angels in ranks,
 
23.  *     And hell is made to appear on that day. On that day shall man be mindful, and what shall being mindful (then) avail him?
 
24.  *     He shall say: O! would that I had sent before for (this) my life!
 
25.  *     But on that day shall no one chastise with (anything like) His chastisement,
 
26.  *     And no one shall bind with (anything like) His binding.
 
27.  *     O soul that art at rest!
 
28.  *     Return to your Lord, well-pleased (with him), well-pleasing (Him),
 
29.  *     So enter among My servants,
 
30.  *     And enter into My garden.