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| 1. * | Ha. Mim. |
| 2. * | By this clear Book! |
| 3. * | See! on a blessed night have we sent it down, for we would warn mankind: |
| 4. * | On the night wherein all things are disposed in wisdom, |
| 5. * | By virtue of our behest. Lo! we have ever sent forth Apostles, |
| 6. * | A mercy from thy Lord: he truly heareth and knoweth all things- |
| 7. * | Lord of the Heavens and of the Earth and of all that is between them,-if ye be firm in faith- |
| 8. * | There is no God but He!-He maketh alive and killeth!-Your Lord and the Lord of your sires of old! |
| 9. * | Yet with doubts do they disport them. |
| 10. * | But mark them on the day when the Heaven shall give out a palpable SMOKE, |
| 11. * | Which shall enshroud mankind: this will be an afflictive torment. |
| 12. * | They will cry, "Our Lord! relieve us from this torment: see! we are believers." |
| 13. * | But how did warning avail them, when an undoubted apostle had come to them; |
| 14. * | And they turned their backs on him, and said, "Taught by others, possessed?" |
| 15. * | Were we to relieve you from the plague even a little, ye would certainly relapse. |
| 16. * | On the day when we shall fiercely put forth our great fierceness, we will surely take vengeance on them! |
| 17. * | Of old, before their time, had we proved the people of Pharaoh, when a noble apostle presented himself to them. |
| 18. * | Send away with me, cried he, "the servants of God; for I am an apostle worthy of all credit: |
| 19. * | And exalt not yourselves against God, for I come to you with undoubted power; |
| 20. * | And I take refuge with Him who is my Lord and your Lord, that ye stone me not: |
| 21. * | And if ye believe me not, at least separate yourselves from me." |
| 22. * | And he cried to his Lord, "That these are a wicked people." |
| 23. * | March forth then, said God, with my servants by night, for ye will be pursued. |
| 24. * | And leave behind you the cleft sea: they are a drowned host. |
| 25. * | How many a garden and fountain did they quit! |
| 26. * | And corn fields and noble dwellings! |
| 27. * | And pleasures in which they rejoiced them! |
| 28. * | So was it: and we gave them as a heritage to another people. |
| 29. * | Nor Heaven nor Earth wept for them, nor was their sentence respited; |
| 30. * | And we rescued the children of Israel from a degrading affliction- |
| 31. * | From Pharaoh, for he was haughty, given to excess. |
| 32. * | And we chose them, in our prescience, above all peoples, |
| 33. * | And we shewed them miracles wherein was their clear trial. |
| 34. * | Yet these infidels say, |
| 35. * | There is but our first death, neither shall we be raised again: Bring back our sires, if ye be men of truth. |
| 36. * | Are they better than the people of Tobba, |
| 37. * | And those who flourished before them whom we destroyed for their evil deeds? |
| 38. * | We have not created the Heavens and the Earth and whatever is between them in sport: |
| 39. * | We have not created them but for a serious end: but the greater part of them understand it not. |
| 40. * | Verily the day of severing shall be the appointed time of all: |
| 41. * | A day when the master shall not at all be aided by the servant, neither shall they be helped; |
| 42. * | Save those on whom God shall have mercy: for He is the mighty, the merciful. |
| 43. * | Verily the tree of Ez-Zakkoum |
| 44. * | Shall be the sinner's food: |
| 45. * | Like dregs of oil shall it boil up in their bellies, |
| 46. * | Like the boiling of scalding water. |
| 47. * | Seize ye him, and drag him into the mid-fire; |
| 48. * | Then pour on his head of the tormenting boiling water. |
| 49. * | Taste this:' for thou forsooth art the mighty, the honourable! D |
| 50. * | Lo! this is that of which ye doubted. |
| 51. * | But the pious shall be in a secure place, |
| 52. * | Amid gardens and fountains, |
| 53. * | Clothed in silk and richest robes, facing one another: |
| 54. * | Thus shall it be: and we will wed them to the virgins with large dark eyes: |
| 55. * | Therein shall they call, secure, for every kind of fruit; |
| 56. * | Therein, their first death passed, shall they taste death no more; and He shall keep them from the pains of Hell:- |
| 57. * | 'Tis the gracious bounty of thy Lord! This is the great felicity. |
| 58. * | We have made this Koran easy for thee in thine own tongue, that they may take the warning. |
| 59. * | Therefore wait thou, for they are waiting. |