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| 1. * | The Inevitable Reality. |
| 2. * | How awesome is the Inevitable Reality? |
| 3. * | Ah, what can give you an idea what the Inevitable Reality is! |
| 4. * | Thamud and Aad denied the oncoming Uproar. |
| 5. * | As for Thamud, they were destroyed by a thunderous blast. |
| 6. * | And as for Aad, they were annihilated with raging hurricane winds. |
| 7. * | Which He made it rage upon them for seven long nights and eight long days. Such that you could imagine those people as uprooted hollow palm-trunks. (54:20). |
| 8. * | Now, can you see any remnants of them? |
| 9. * | And there came Pharaoh, and many others before him, and the townships that were overthrown. All of them committed fault upon fault. |
| 10. * | For, they disobeyed the respective Messenger of their Lord. Consequently, He grasped them with a firm grasp. |
| 11. * | Behold! When waters topped the levels, We carried you upon the watercraft. |
| 12. * | (These events are conveyed to you) so that We might make it a lesson for you, and that any attentive ear might take it to memory. |
| 13. * | Hence, think when the Trumpet will be sounded with a single Blast. |
| 14. * | And the earth will be moved and the mountains, and struck with a stroke. |
| 15. * | Then, on that Day when the Episode will come to pass. |
| 16. * | And when the sky will be rent asunder, such that frail will it be that Day. |
| 17. * | And the Divine Laws in Nature will rally around and your Lord's Supreme Control will reign over eight Universes that Day. (Instead of the current seven). |
| 18. * | On the Day you will be brought, not a single hidden deed of yours will remain hidden. |
| 19. * | Then he who is given his record in his right hand, will say, "Come all of you around! Read this my record. |
| 20. * | Behold, I always thought that my account would be given to me." |
| 21. * | Then he will be in a state of Bliss. |
| 22. * | In a lofty Garden. |
| 23. * | With its fruit at hand. |
| 24. * | Eat and drink gleefully for what you did in the days past. |
| 25. * | But as for him who is given his record in his left hand, he will say, "Oh, I wish I was never given my record. |
| 26. * | And knew not my account. |
| 27. * | Oh, could this be the end of me! |
| 28. * | Of no help is my wealth. |
| 29. * | Vanquished is all my control." |
| 30. * | Take him and shackle him! (Halt from further development). |
| 31. * | And then hurl him in the blazing flame of his deeds. |
| 32. * | And then make him a link in the very long chain of people like him. (Seventy cubits = Very long). |
| 33. * | Behold, he failed to grace himself with faith in Allah, the Tremendous. |
| 34. * | And arranged not to feed the needy. |
| 35. * | And so, he has no friend here today. |
| 36. * | Nor any food but the discarded shreds he gave to others. |
| 37. * | Which none eat but those who faulted through life. |
| 38. * | But nay, I call to witness all that you see (that actions have consequences of their like). |
| 39. * | And all that you see not (the subtle progression of the Law of Requital). |
| 40. * | Behold, this is indeed the revealed Word in the dialect of a noble Messenger. |
| 41. * | This is not the speech of a poet. Seldom do you reach conviction. |
| 42. * | Nor is it the word of a soothsayer. Little of your intellect do you bring to use. |
| 43. * | It is a Revelation from the Lord of the Worlds. |
| 44. * | And if he had ascribed his sayings unto Us. |
| 45. * | We would have taken him by the right hand. |
| 46. * | And would have cut off his Aorta. |
| 47. * | And none of you could stop Us from doing that. |
| 48. * | But, verily, it is a Reminder and a giver of eminence to those who wish to walk aright. |
| 49. * | And behold, We know well that among you will be deniers. |
| 50. * | And behold, this denial will become a source of regret for the rejecters. |
| 51. * | For, verily, it is Truth Absolute. |
| 52. * | Therefore, work hard to manifest the Glory of your Lord's Tremendous Name. |