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| 1. * | By those angels who DRAG FORTH souls with violence, |
| 2. * | And by those who with joyous release release them; |
| 3. * | By those who swim swimmingly along; |
| 4. * | By those who are foremost with foremost speed; |
| 5. * | By those who conduct the affairs of the universe! |
| 6. * | One day, the disturbing trumpet-blast shall disturb it, |
| 7. * | Which the second blast shall follow: |
| 8. * | Men's hearts on that day shall quake:- |
| 9. * | Their looks be downcast. |
| 10. * | The infidels will say, "Shall we indeed be restored as at first? |
| 11. * | What! when we have become rotten bones?" |
| 12. * | This then, say they, "will be a return to loss." |
| 13. * | Verily, it will be but a single blast, |
| 14. * | And lo! they are on the surface of the earth. |
| 15. * | Hath the story of Moses reached thee? |
| 16. * | When his Lord called to him in Towa's holy vale: |
| 17. * | Go to Pharaoh, for he hath burst all bounds: |
| 18. * | And say, "Wouldest thou become just? |
| 19. * | Then I will guide thee to thy Lord that thou mayest fear him." |
| 20. * | And he showed him a great miracle,- |
| 21. * | But he treated him as an impostor, and rebelled; |
| 22. * | Then turned he his back all hastily, |
| 23. * | And gathered an assembly and proclaimed, |
| 24. * | And said, "I am your Lord supreme." |
| 25. * | So God visited on him the punishment of this life and of the other. |
| 26. * | Verily, herein is a lesson for him who hath the fear of God. |
| 27. * | Are ye the harder to create, or the heaven which he hath built? |
| 28. * | He reared its height and fashioned it, |
| 29. * | And gave darkness to its night, and brought out its light, |
| 30. * | And afterwards stretched forth the earth,- |
| 31. * | He brought forth from it its waters and its pastures; |
| 32. * | And set the mountains firm |
| 33. * | For you and your cattle to enjoy. |
| 34. * | But when the grand overthrow shall come, |
| 35. * | The day when a man shall reflect on the pains that he hath taken, |
| 36. * | And Hell shall be in full view of all who are looking on; |
| 37. * | Then, as for him who hath transgressed |
| 38. * | And hath chosen this present life, |
| 39. * | Verily, Hell-that shall be his dwelling-place: |
| 40. * | But as to him who shall have feared the majesty of his Lord, and shall have refrained his soul from lust, |
| 41. * | Verily, Paradise-that shall be his dwelling-place. |
| 42. * | They will ask thee of "the Hour," when will be its fixed time? |
| 43. * | But what knowledge hast thou of it? |
| 44. * | Its period is known only to thy Lord; |
| 45. * | And thou art only charged with the warning of those who fear it. |
| 46. * | On the day when they shall see it, it shall seem to them as though they had not tarried in the tomb, longer than its evening or its morn. |