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khalifa
 
1.  *     When the inevitable comes to pass.
 
2.  *     Nothing can stop it from happening.
 
3.  *     It will lower some, and raise others.
 
4.  *     The earth will be shaken up.
 
5.  *     The mountains will be wiped out.
 
6.  *     As if they never existed.
 
7.  *     You will be stratified into three kinds.
 
8.  *     Those who deserved bliss will be in bliss.
 
9.  *     Those who deserved misery will be in misery.
 
10.  *     Then there is the elite of the elite.
 
11.  *     They are those who will be closest (to God).
 
12.  *     In the gardens of bliss.
 
13.  *     Many from the first generations.
 
14.  *     Few from the later generations.
 
15.  *     On luxurious furnishings.
 
16.  *     Enjoying everything, they will be neighbors.
 
17.  *     Serving them will be immortal servants.
 
18.  *     With cups, pitchers and pure drinks.
 
19.  *     They never run out, nor do they get bored.
 
20.  *     Fruits of their choice.
 
21.  *     Meat of birds that they desire.
 
22.  *     Beautiful mates.
 
23.  *     Like protected pearls.
 
24.  *     Rewards for their works.
 
25.  *     They never hear any nonsense therein, nor sinful utterances.
 
26.  *     Only the utterance: "Peace, peace."
 
27.  *     Those of the right side, will be on the right side.
 
28.  *     In lush orchards.
 
29.  *     Fragrant fruits.
 
30.  *     Extended shade.
 
31.  *     Abundant water.
 
32.  *     Many fruits.
 
33.  *     Never ending; never forbidden.
 
34.  *     Luxurious furnishings.
 
35.  *     We create for them mates.
 
36.  *     Never previously touched.
 
37.  *     Perfectly matched.
 
38.  *     For those on the right side.
 
39.  *     Many from the early generations.
 
40.  *     Many from the later generations.
 
41.  *     Those of the left, will be on the left.
 
42.  *     In misery and inferno.
 
43.  *     Even their shade is hot.
 
44.  *     Never cool, never tolerable.
 
45.  *     They used to be rich.
 
46.  *     They insisted on the great blasphemy.
 
47.  *     They said, "After we die and turn to dust and bones, we get resurrected?
 
48.  *     "Does this include our forefathers?"
 
49.  *     Say, "The early generations and the later generations.
 
50.  *     "Will be summoned to a meeting on a predetermined day.
 
51.  *     "Then you, O disbelieving strayers.
 
52.  *     "Will eat from the trees of bitterness.
 
53.  *     "Filling your bellies therefrom.
 
54.  *     "Then drinking on top of it hellish drinks.
 
55.  *     "Then adding drinks of sand."
 
56.  *     Such is their share on the Day of Judgment.
 
57.  *     We have created you, if you could only believe!
 
58.  *     Have you noted the semen that you produce?
 
59.  *     Did you create it, or did we?
 
60.  *     We have predetermined death for you. Nothing can stop us -
 
61.  *     from substituting new generations in your place, and establishing what you do not know.
 
62.  *     You know about the first creation. Do you not remember?
 
63.  *     Have you noted the crops you reap?
 
64.  *     Did you grow them, or did we?
 
65.  *     If we will, we can turn it into hay. Then you will lament:
 
66.  *     "We lost.
 
67.  *     "We are deprived."
 
68.  *     Have you noted the water you drink?
 
69.  *     Did you send it down from the clouds, or did we?
 
70.  *     If we will, we can make it salty. You should be thankful.
 
71.  *     Have you noted the fire you ignite?
 
72.  *     Did you initiate its tree, or did we?
 
73.  *     We rendered it a reminder, and a useful tool for the users.
 
74.  *     You shall glorify the name of your Lord, the Great.
 
75.  *     I swear by the positions of the stars.
 
76.  *     This is an oath, if you only knew, that is awesome.
 
77.  *     This is an honorable Quran.
 
78.  *     In a protected book.
 
79.  *     None can grasp it except the sincere.
 
80.  *     A revelation from the Lord of the universe.
 
81.  *     Are you disregarding this narration?
 
82.  *     Do you make it your business that you disbelieve?
 
83.  *     When the time comes and it (your soul) reaches your throat -
 
84.  *     you will then look around.
 
85.  *     We are closer to it than you are, but you do not see.
 
86.  *     If it is true that you do not owe any accounting -
 
87.  *     why do you not restore (your soul), if you are truthful?
 
88.  *     If he is one of those close to Me -
 
89.  *     then joy, flowers, and gardens of bliss.
 
90.  *     And if he is one of the right -
 
91.  *     peace is the lot of those on the right.
 
92.  *     But if he is one of the disbelievers, the strayers -
 
93.  *     then an abode of inferno -
 
94.  *     and burning in Hell.
 
95.  *     This is the absolute truth.
 
96.  *     You shall glorify the name of your Lord, the Great.