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| 1. * | By the swift scatterers |
| 2. * | and the burden-bearers |
| 3. * | and the smooth runners |
| 4. * | and the partitioners, |
| 5. * | surely that you are promised is true, |
| 6. * | and surely the Doom is about to fall! |
| 7. * | By heaven with all its tracks |
| 8. * | surely you speak at variance, |
| 9. * | and perverted therefrom are some. |
| 10. * | Perish the conjecturers |
| 11. * | who are dazed in perplexity |
| 12. * | asking, 'When shall be the Day of Doom?' |
| 13. * | Upon the day when they shall be tried at the Fire: |
| 14. * | 'Taste your trial! This is that you were seeking to hasten.' |
| 15. * | Surely the godfearing shall be among gardens and fountains |
| 16. * | taking whatsoever their Lord has given them; they were good-doers before that. |
| 17. * | Little of the night would they slumber, |
| 18. * | and in the mornings they would ask for forgiveness; |
| 19. * | and the beggar and the outcast had a share in their wealth. |
| 20. * | In the earth are signs for those having sure faith; |
| 21. * | and in your selves; what, do you not see? |
| 22. * | And in heaven is your provision, and that you are promised. |
| 23. * | So by the Lord of heaven and earth, it is as surely true as that you have speech. |
| 24. * | Hast thou received the story of the honoured guests of Abraham? |
| 25. * | When they entered unto him, saying 'Peace!' he said 'Peace! You are a people unknown to me.' |
| 26. * | Then he turned to his household and brought a fattened calf, |
| 27. * | and he laid it before them saying, 'Will you not eat?' |
| 28. * | Then he conceived a fear of them. They said, 'Be not afraid!' And they gave him good tidings of a cunning boy. |
| 29. * | Then came forward his wife, clamouring, and she smote her face, and said, 'An old woman, barren!' |
| 30. * | They said, 'So says thy Lord; He is the All-wise, the All-knowing.' |
| 31. * | Said he, 'And what is your business, envoys?' |
| 32. * | They said, 'We have been sent to a people of sinners, |
| 33. * | to loose upon them stones of clay |
| 34. * | marked with thy Lord for the prodigal. |
| 35. * | So We brought forth such believers as were in it, |
| 36. * | but We found not therein except one house of those that have surrendered themselves. |
| 37. * | And therein We left a sign to those who fear the painful chastisement. |
| 38. * | And also in Moses, when We sent him unto Pharaoh, with a clear authority, |
| 39. * | but he turned his back, with his court, saying, 'A sorcerer, or a man possessed!' |
| 40. * | So We seized him and his hosts, and We cast them into the sea, and he blameworthy. |
| 41. * | And also in Ad, when We loosed against them the withering wind |
| 42. * | that left nothing it came upon, but made it as stuff decayed. |
| 43. * | And also in Thamood, when it was said to them, 'Take your enjoyment for a while!' |
| 44. * | Then they turned in disdain from the commandment of their Lord, and the thunderbolt took them and they themselves beholding |
| 45. * | and they were not able to stand upright, and were not helped. |
| 46. * | And the people of Noah before; surely they were an ungodly people. |
| 47. * | And heaven -- We built it with might, and We extend it wide. |
| 48. * | And the earth -- We spread it forth; O excellent Smoothers! |
| 49. * | And of everything created We two kinds; haply you will remember. |
| 50. * | Therefore flee unto God! I am a clear warner from Him to you. |
| 51. * | And set not up with God another god; I am a clear warner from Him to you. |
| 52. * | Even so not a Messenger came to those before them but they said, 'A sorcerer, or a man possessed!' |
| 53. * | What, have they bequeathed it one to another? Nay, but they are an insolent people. |
| 54. * | So turn thou from them; thou wilt not be reproached. |
| 55. * | And remind; the Reminder profits the believers. |
| 56. * | I have not created jinn and mankind except to serve Me. |
| 57. * | I desire of them no provision, neither do I desire that they should feed Me. |
| 58. * | Surely God is the All-provider, the Possessor of Strength, the Ever-Sure. |
| 59. * | The evildoers shall have their portion, like the portion of their fellows; so let them not hasten Me! |
| 60. * | So woe to the unbelievers, for that day of theirs that they are promised. |