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| 1. * | Qaf. By the glorious Koran! |
| 2. * | Nay, but they marvel that a warner has come to them from among them; and the unbelievers say, 'This is a marvellous thing! |
| 3. * | What, when we are dead and become dust? That is a far returning!' |
| 4. * | We know what the earth diminishes of them; with Us is a book recording. |
| 5. * | Nay, but they cried lies to the truth when it came to them, and so they are in a case confused. |
| 6. * | What, have they not beheld heaven above them, how We have built it, and decked it out fair, and it has no cracks? |
| 7. * | And the earth -- We stretched it forth, and cast on it firm mountains, and We caused to grow therein of every joyous kind |
| 8. * | for an insight and a reminder to every penitent servant. |
| 9. * | And We sent down out of heaven water blessed, and caused to grow thereby gardens and grain of harvest |
| 10. * | and tall palm-trees with spathes compact, |
| 11. * | a provision for the servants, and thereby We revived a land that was dead. Even so is the coming forth. |
| 12. * | Cried lies before them the people of Noah and the men of Er-Rass, and Thamood, |
| 13. * | and Ad and Pharaoh, the brothers of Lot, |
| 14. * | the men of the Thicket, the people of Tubba'. Every one cried lies to the Messengers, and My threat came true. |
| 15. * | What, were We wearied by the first creation? No indeed; but they are in uncertainty as to the new creation. |
| 16. * | We indeed created man; and We know what his soul whispers within him, and We are nearer to him than the jugular vein. |
| 17. * | When the two angels meet together, sitting one on the right, and one on the left, |
| 18. * | not a word he utters, but by him is an observer ready. |
| 19. * | And death's agony comes in truth; that is what thou wast shunning! |
| 20. * | And the Trumpet shall be blown; that is the Day of the Threat. |
| 21. * | And every soul shall come, and with it a driver and a witness. |
| 22. * | 'Thou wast heedless of this; therefore We have now removed from thee thy covering, and so thy sight today is piercing.' |
| 23. * | And his comrade shall say, 'This is what I have, made ready.' |
| 24. * | 'Cast, you twain, into Gehenna every froward unbeliever, |
| 25. * | every hinderer of the good, transgressor, disquieter, |
| 26. * | who set up with God another god; therefore, you twain, cast him into the terrible chastisement.' |
| 27. * | And his comrade shall say, 'Our Lord, I made him not insolent, but he was in far error.' |
| 28. * | He shall say, 'Dispute not before Me! For I sent you beforehand -- the threat. |
| 29. * | The Word is not changed with Me; I wrong not My servants.' |
| 30. * | Upon the day We shall say unto Gehenna, 'Art thou filled?' And it shall say, 'Are there any more to come?' |
| 31. * | And Paradise shall be brought forward to the godfearing, not afar: |
| 32. * | 'This is that you were promised; it is for every mindful penitent.' |
| 33. * | Whosoever fears the All-merciful in the Unseen, and comes with a penitent heart: |
| 34. * | 'Enter it in peace! This is the Day of Eternity.' |
| 35. * | Therein they shall have whatever they will; and with Us there is yet more. |
| 36. * | How many a generation We destroyed before them that was stronger in valour than they, then they searched about in the land; was there any asylum? |
| 37. * | Surely in that there is a reminder to him who has a heart, or will give ear with a present mind. |
| 38. * | We created the heavens and the earth, and what between them is, in six days, and no weariness touched Us. |
| 39. * | So be thou patient under what they say, and proclaim thy Lord's praise before the rising of the sun, and before its setting, |
| 40. * | and proclaim thy Lord's praise in the night, and at the ends of the prostrations. |
| 41. * | And listen thou for the day when the caller shall call from a near place. |
| 42. * | On the day they hear the Cry in truth, that is the day of coming forth. |
| 43. * | It is We who give life, and make to die, and to Us is the homecoming. |
| 44. * | Upon the day when the earth is split asunder from about them as they hasten forth; that is a mustering easy for Us. |
| 45. * | We know very well what they say; thou art not a tyrant over them. Therefore remind by the Koran him who fears My threat. |