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1.  *     The Hour (of Judgment) is nigh, and the moon is cleft asunder.
 
2.  *     But if they see a Sign, they turn away, and say, "This is (but) transient magic."
 
3.  *     They reject (the warning) and follow their (own) lusts but every matter has its appointed time.
 
4.  *     There have already come to them Recitals wherein there is (enough) to check (them),
 
5.  *     Mature wisdom;- but (the preaching of) Warners profits them not.
 
6.  *     Therefore, (O Prophet,) turn away from them. The Day that the Caller will call (them) to a terrible affair,
 
7.  *     They will come forth,- their eyes humbled - from (their) graves, (torpid) like locusts scattered abroad,
 
8.  *     Hastening, with eyes transfixed, towards the Caller!- "Hard is this Day!", the Unbelievers will say.
 
9.  *     Before them the People of Noah rejected (their messenger): they rejected Our servant, and said, "Here is one possessed!", and he was driven out.
 
10.  *     Then he called on his Lord: "I am one overcome: do Thou then help (me)!"
 
11.  *     So We opened the gates of heaven, with water pouring forth.
 
12.  *     And We caused the earth to gush forth with springs, so the waters met (and rose) to the extent decreed.
 
13.  *     But We bore him on an (Ark) made of broad planks and caulked with palm-fibre:
 
14.  *     She floats under our eyes (and care): a recompense to one who had been rejected (with scorn)!
 
15.  *     And We have left this as a Sign (for all time): then is there any that will receive admonition?
 
16.  *     But how (terrible) was My Penalty and My Warning?
 
17.  *     And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
 
18.  *     The 'Ad (people) (too) rejected (Truth): then how terrible was My Penalty and My Warning?
 
19.  *     For We sent against them a furious wind, on a Day of violent Disaster,
 
20.  *     Plucking out men as if they were roots of palm-trees torn up (from the ground).
 
21.  *     Yea, how (terrible) was My Penalty and My Warning!
 
22.  *     But We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
 
23.  *     The Thamud (also) rejected (their) Warners.
 
24.  *     For they said: "What! a man! a Solitary one from among ourselves! shall we follow such a one? Truly should we then be straying in mind, and mad!
 
25.  *     "Is it that the Message is sent to him, of all people amongst us? Nay, he is a liar, an insolent one!"
 
26.  *     Ah! they will know on the morrow, which is the liar, the insolent one!
 
27.  *     For We will send the she-camel by way of trial for them. So watch them, (O Salih), and possess thyself in patience!
 
28.  *     And tell them that the water is to be divided between them: Each one's right to drink being brought forward (by suitable turns).
 
29.  *     But they called to their companion, and he took a sword in hand, and hamstrung (her).
 
30.  *     Ah! how (terrible) was My Penalty and My Warning!
 
31.  *     For We sent against them a single Mighty Blast, and they became like the dry stubble used by one who pens cattle.
 
32.  *     And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
 
33.  *     The people of Lut rejected (his) warning.
 
34.  *     We sent against them a violent Tornado with showers of stones, (which destroyed them), except Lut's household: them We delivered by early Dawn,-
 
35.  *     As a Grace from Us: thus do We reward those who give thanks.
 
36.  *     And (Lut) did warn them of Our Punishment, but they disputed about the Warning.
 
37.  *     And they even sought to snatch away his guests from him, but We blinded their eyes. (They heard:) "Now taste ye My Wrath and My Warning."
 
38.  *     Early on the morrow an abiding Punishment seized them:
 
39.  *     "So taste ye My Wrath and My Warning."
 
40.  *     And We have indeed made the Qur'an easy to understand and remember: then is there any that will receive admonition?
 
41.  *     To the People of Pharaoh, too, aforetime, came Warners (from Allah).
 
42.  *     The (people) rejected all Our Signs; but We seized them with such Penalty (as comes) from One Exalted in Power, able to carry out His Will.
 
43.  *     Are your Unbelievers, (O Quraish), better than they? Or have ye an immunity in the Sacred Books?
 
44.  *     Or do they say: "We acting together can defend ourselves"?
 
45.  *     Soon will their multitude be put to flight, and they will show their backs.
 
46.  *     Nay, the Hour (of Judgment) is the time promised them (for their full recompense): And that Hour will be most grievous and most bitter.
 
47.  *     Truly those in sin are the ones straying in mind, and mad.
 
48.  *     The Day they will be dragged through the Fire on their faces, (they will hear:) "Taste ye the touch of Hell!"
 
49.  *     Verily, all things have We created in proportion and measure.
 
50.  *     And Our Command is but a single (Act),- like the twinkling of an eye.
 
51.  *     And (oft) in the past, have We destroyed gangs like unto you: then is there any that will receive admonition?
 
52.  *     All that they do is noted in (their) Books (of Deeds):
 
53.  *     Every matter, small and great, is on record.
 
54.  *     As to the Righteous, they will be in the midst of Gardens and Rivers,
 
55.  *     In an Assembly of Truth, in the Presence of a Sovereign Omnipotent.