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1.  *     The Sure Reality!
 
2.  *     What is the Sure Reality?
 
3.  *     And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?
 
4.  *     The Thamud and the 'Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!
 
5.  *     But the Thamud,- they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!
 
6.  *     And the 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious Wind, exceedingly violent;
 
7.  *     He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession: so that thou couldst see the (whole) people lying prostrate in its (path), as they had been roots of hollow palm-trees tumbled down!
 
8.  *     Then seest thou any of them left surviving?
 
9.  *     And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.
 
10.  *     And disobeyed (each) the messenger of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.
 
11.  *     We, when the water (of Noah's Flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating (Ark),
 
12.  *     That We might make it a Message unto you, and that ears (that should hear the tale and) retain its memory should bear its (lessons) in remembrance.
 
13.  *     Then, when one blast is sounded on the Trumpet,
 
14.  *     And the earth is moved, and its mountains, and they are crushed to powder at one stroke,-
 
15.  *     On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass.
 
16.  *     And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,
 
17.  *     And the angels will be on its sides, and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord above them.
 
18.  *     That Day shall ye be brought to Judgment: not an act of yours that ye hide will be hidden.
 
19.  *     Then he that will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Ah here! Read ye my Record!
 
20.  *     "I did really understand that my Account would (One Day) reach me!"
 
21.  *     And he will be in a life of Bliss,
 
22.  *     In a Garden on high,
 
23.  *     The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.
 
24.  *     "Eat ye and drink ye, with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you, in the days that are gone!"
 
25.  *     And he that will be given his Record in his left hand, will say: "Ah! Would that my Record had not been given to me!
 
26.  *     "And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!
 
27.  *     "Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!
 
28.  *     "Of no profit to me has been my wealth!
 
29.  *     "My power has perished from me!"...
 
30.  *     (The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,
 
31.  *     "And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.
 
32.  *     "Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!
 
33.  *     "This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High.
 
34.  *     "And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!
 
35.  *     "So no friend hath he here this Day.
 
36.  *     "Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,
 
37.  *     "Which none do eat but those in sin."
 
38.  *     So I do call to witness what ye see,
 
39.  *     And what ye see not,
 
40.  *     That this is verily the word of an honoured messenger;
 
41.  *     It is not the word of a poet: little it is ye believe!
 
42.  *     Nor is it the word of a soothsayer: little admonition it is ye receive.
 
43.  *     (This is) a Message sent down from the Lord of the Worlds.
 
44.  *     And if the messenger were to invent any sayings in Our name,
 
45.  *     We should certainly seize him by his right hand,
 
46.  *     And We should certainly then cut off the artery of his heart:
 
47.  *     Nor could any of you withhold him (from Our wrath).
 
48.  *     But verily this is a Message for the Allah-fearing.
 
49.  *     And We certainly know that there are amongst you those that reject (it).
 
50.  *     But truly (Revelation) is a cause of sorrow for the Unbelievers.
 
51.  *     But verily it is Truth of assured certainty.
 
52.  *     So glorify the name of thy Lord Most High.