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pickthal
 
1.  *     Whereof do they question one another?
 
2.  *     (It is) of the awful tidings,
 
3.  *     Concerning which they are in disagreement.
 
4.  *     Nay, but they will come to know!
 
5.  *     Nay, again, but they will come to know!
 
6.  *     Have We not made the earth an expanse,
 
7.  *     And the high hills bulwarks?
 
8.  *     And We have created you in pairs,
 
9.  *     And have appointed your sleep for repose,
 
10.  *     And have appointed the night as a cloak,
 
11.  *     And have appointed the day for livelihood.
 
12.  *     And We have built above you seven strong (heavens),
 
13.  *     And have appointed a dazzling lamp,
 
14.  *     And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,
 
15.  *     Thereby to produce grain and plant,
 
16.  *     And gardens of thick foliage.
 
17.  *     Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,
 
18.  *     A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes,
 
19.  *     And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,
 
20.  *     And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage.
 
21.  *     Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,
 
22.  *     A home for the rebellious.
 
23.  *     They will abide therein for ages.
 
24.  *     Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink
 
25.  *     Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:
 
26.  *     Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).
 
27.  *     For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;
 
28.  *     They called Our revelations false with strong denial.
 
29.  *     Everything have We recorded in a Book.
 
30.  *     So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment.
 
31.  *     Lo! for the duteous is achievement -
 
32.  *     Gardens enclosed and vineyards,
 
33.  *     And maidens for companions,
 
34.  *     And a full cup.
 
35.  *     There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -
 
36.  *     Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -
 
37.  *     Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse.
 
38.  *     On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right.
 
39.  *     That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord.
 
40.  *     Lo! We warn you of a doom at hand, a day whereon a man will look on that which his own hands have sent before, and the disbeliever will cry: "Would that I were dust!"