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1.  *     Ha-Mim.
 
2.  *     By the Book that makes things clear;-
 
3.  *     We sent it down during a Blessed Night: for We (ever) wish to warn (against Evil).
 
4.  *     In the (Night) is made distinct every affair of wisdom,
 
5.  *     By command, from Our Presence. For We (ever) send (revelations),
 
6.  *     As Mercy from thy Lord: for He hears and knows (all things);
 
7.  *     The Lord of the heavens and the earth and all between them, if ye (but) have an assured faith.
 
8.  *     There is no god but He: It is He Who gives life and gives death,- The Lord and Cherisher to you and your earliest ancestors.
 
9.  *     Yet they play about in doubt.
 
10.  *     Then watch thou for the Day that the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke (or mist) plainly visible,
 
11.  *     Enveloping the people: this will be a Penalty Grievous.
 
12.  *     (They will say:) "Our Lord! remove the Penalty from us, for we do really believe!"
 
13.  *     How shall the message be (effectual) for them, seeing that an Messenger explaining things clearly has (already) come to them,-
 
14.  *     Yet they turn away from him and say: "Tutored (by others), a man possessed!"
 
15.  *     We shall indeed remove the Penalty for a while, (but) truly ye will revert (to your ways).
 
16.  *     One day We shall seize you with a mighty onslaught: We will indeed (then) exact Retribution!
 
17.  *     We did, before them, try the people of Pharaoh: there came to them an apostle most honourable,
 
18.  *     Saying: "Restore to me the Servants of Allah. I am to you an apostle worthy of all trust;
 
19.  *     "And be not arrogant as against Allah. for I come to you with authority manifest.
 
20.  *     "For me, I have sought safety with my Lord and your Lord, against your injuring me.
 
21.  *     "If ye believe me not, at least keep yourselves away from me."
 
22.  *     (But they were aggressive:) then he cried to his Lord: "These are indeed a people given to sin."
 
23.  *     (The reply came:) "March forth with My Servants by night: for ye are sure to be pursued.
 
24.  *     "And leave the sea as a furrow (divided): for they are a host (destined) to be drowned."
 
25.  *     How many were the gardens and springs they left behind,
 
26.  *     And corn-fields and noble buildings,
 
27.  *     And wealth (and conveniences of life), wherein they had taken such delight!
 
28.  *     Thus (was their end)! And We made other people inherit (those things)!
 
29.  *     And neither heaven nor earth shed a tear over them: nor were they given a respite (again).
 
30.  *     We did deliver aforetime the Children of Israel from humiliating Punishment,
 
31.  *     Inflicted by Pharaoh, for he was arrogant (even) among inordinate transgressors.
 
32.  *     And We chose them aforetime above the nations, knowingly,
 
33.  *     And granted them Signs in which there was a manifest trial
 
34.  *     As to these (Quraish), they say forsooth:
 
35.  *     "There is nothing beyond our first death, and we shall not be raised again.
 
36.  *     "Then bring (back) our forefathers, if what ye say is true!"
 
37.  *     What! Are they better than the people of Tubba and those who were before them? We destroyed them because they were guilty of sin.
 
38.  *     We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, merely in (idle) sport:
 
39.  *     We created them not except for just ends: but most of them do not understand.
 
40.  *     Verily the Day of sorting out is the time appointed for all of them,-
 
41.  *     The Day when no protector can avail his client in aught, and no help can they receive,
 
42.  *     Except such as receive Allah.s Mercy: for He is Exalted in Might, Most Merciful.
 
43.  *     Verily the tree of Zaqqum
 
44.  *     Will be the food of the Sinful,-
 
45.  *     Like molten brass; it will boil in their insides.
 
46.  *     Like the boiling of scalding water.
 
47.  *     (A voice will cry: "Seize ye him and drag him into the midst of the Blazing Fire!
 
48.  *     "Then pour over his head the Penalty of Boiling Water,
 
49.  *     "Taste thou (this)! Truly wast thou mighty, full of honour!
 
50.  *     "Truly this is what ye used to doubt!"
 
51.  *     As to the Righteous (they will be) in a position of Security,
 
52.  *     Among Gardens and Springs;
 
53.  *     Dressed in fine silk and in rich brocade, they will face each other;
 
54.  *     So; and We shall join them to Companions with beautiful, big, and lustrous eyes.
 
55.  *     There can they call for every kind of fruit in peace and security;
 
56.  *     Nor will they there taste Death, except the first death; and He will preserve them from the Penalty of the Blazing Fire,-
 
57.  *     As a Bounty from thy Lord! that will be the supreme achievement!
 
58.  *     Verily, We have made this (Qur'an) easy, in thy tongue, in order that they may give heed.
 
59.  *     So wait thou and watch; for they (too) are waiting.