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| 1. * | Ha Mim |
| 2. * | By the Clear Book. |
| 3. * | We have sent it down in a blessed night (We are ever warning) |
| 4. * | therein every wise bidding |
| 5. * | determined as a bidding from Us, (We are ever sending) |
| 6. * | as a mercy from thy Lord (surely He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing) |
| 7. * | Lord of the heavens and earth, and all that between them is if you have faith. |
| 8. * | There is no god but He; He gives life and makes to die; your Lord and the Lord of your fathers, the ancients. |
| 9. * | Nay, but they are in doubt, playing. |
| 10. * | So be on the watch for a day when heaven shall bring a manifest smoke |
| 11. * | covering the people; this is a painful chastisement. |
| 12. * | 'O our Lord, remove Thou from us the chastisement; we are believers.' |
| 13. * | How should they have the Reminder, seeing a clear Messenger already came to them, |
| 14. * | then they turned away from him and said, 'A man tutored, possessed!' |
| 15. * | 'Behold, We are removing the chastisement a little; behold, you revert!' |
| 16. * | Upon the day when We shall assault most mightily, then We shall take Our vengeance. |
| 17. * | Already before them We tried the people of Pharaoh, and a noble Messenger came unto them, |
| 18. * | saying, 'Deliver to me God's servants; I am for you a faithful Messenger, |
| 19. * | and, 'Rise not up against God; behold, I come to you with a clear authority, |
| 20. * | and I take refuge in my Lord and your Lord, lest you should stone me. |
| 21. * | 'But if so be that you believe me not, go you apart from me!' |
| 22. * | And he called to his Lord, saying, 'These are a sinful people.' |
| 23. * | 'Then set thou forth with My servants in a watch of the night; surely you will be followed. |
| 24. * | And leave the sea becalmed; they are a drowned host.' |
| 25. * | They left how many gardens and fountains, |
| 26. * | sown fields, and how noble a station, |
| 27. * | and what prosperity they had rejoiced in! |
| 28. * | Even so; and We bequeathed them upon another people. |
| 29. * | Neither heaven nor earth wept for them, nor were they respited; |
| 30. * | and We delivered the Children of Israel from the humbling chastisement, |
| 31. * | from Pharaoh; surely he was a high One, of the prodigals; |
| 32. * | and We chose them, out of a knowledge, above all beings, |
| 33. * | and gave them signs wherein there was a manifest trial. |
| 34. * | These men do say, |
| 35. * | 'There is nothing but our first death; we shall not be revived. |
| 36. * | Bring us our fathers, if you speak truly!' |
| 37. * | Are they better, or the people of Tubba' and those before them whom We destroyed? They were surely sinners. |
| 38. * | We created not the heavens and earth, and all that between them is, in play; |
| 39. * | We created them not save in truth; but most of them know it not. |
| 40. * | Surely the Day of Decision shall be their appointed time, all together, |
| 41. * | the day a master shall avail nothing a client, and they shall not be helped, |
| 42. * | save him upon whom God has mercy; He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate. |
| 43. * | Lo, the Tree of Ez-Zakkoum |
| 44. * | is the food of the guilty, |
| 45. * | like molten copper, bubbling in the belly |
| 46. * | as boiling water bubbles. |
| 47. * | 'Take him, and thrust him into the midst of Hell, |
| 48. * | then pour over his head the chastisement of boiling water!' |
| 49. * | 'Taste! Surely thou art the mighty, the noble. |
| 50. * | This is that concerning which you were doubting.' |
| 51. * | Surely the godfearing shall be in a station secure |
| 52. * | among gardens and fountains, |
| 53. * | robed in silk and brocade, set face to face. |
| 54. * | Even so; and We shall espouse them to wide-eyed houris, |
| 55. * | therein calling for every fruit, secure. |
| 56. * | They shall not taste therein of death, save the first death, And He shall guard them against the chastisement of Hell -- |
| 57. * | a bounty from thy Lord; that is the mighty triumph. |
| 58. * | Now We have made it easy by thy tongue, that haply they may remember. |
| 59. * | So be on the watch; they too are on the watch. |