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| 1. * | By the dawn |
| 2. * | and ten nights, |
| 3. * | by the even and the odd, |
| 4. * | by the night when it journeys on! |
| 5. * | Is there in that an oath for a mindful man? |
| 6. * | Hast thou not seen how thy Lord did with Ad, |
| 7. * | Iram of the pillars, |
| 8. * | the like of which was never created in the land, |
| 9. * | and Thamood, who hollowed the rocks in the valley, |
| 10. * | and Pharaoh, he of the tent-pegs, |
| 11. * | who all were insolent in the land |
| 12. * | and worked much corruption therein? |
| 13. * | Thy Lord unloosed on them a scourge of chastisement; |
| 14. * | surely thy Lord is ever on the watch. |
| 15. * | As for man, whenever his Lord tries him, and honours him, and blesses him, then he says, 'My Lord has honoured me.' |
| 16. * | But when he tries him and stints for him his provision, then he says, 'My Lord has despised me.' |
| 17. * | No indeed; but you honour not the orphan, |
| 18. * | and you urge not the feeding of the needy, |
| 19. * | and you devour the inheritance greedily, |
| 20. * | and you love wealth with an ardent love |
| 21. * | No indeed! When the earth is ground to powder, |
| 22. * | and thy Lord comes, and the angels rank on rank, |
| 23. * | and Gehenna is brought out, upon that day man will remember; and how shall the Reminder be for him? |
| 24. * | He shall say, 'O would that I had forwarded for my life!' |
| 25. * | Upon that day none shall chastise as He chastises, |
| 26. * | none shall bind as He binds. |
| 27. * | 'O soul at peace, |
| 28. * | return unto thy Lord, well-pleased, well-pleasing! |
| 29. * | Enter thou among My servants! |
| 30. * | Enter thou My Paradise!' |