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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!'