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