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| 1. * | By the DAYBREAK a |
| 2. * | nd ten nights. |
| 3. * | By that which is double and that which is single, |
| 4. * | By the night when it pursues its course! |
| 5. * | Is there not in this an oath becoming a man of sense? |
| 6. * | Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with Ad, |
| 7. * | At Irem adorned with pillars, |
| 8. * | Whose like have not been reared in these lands! |
| 9. * | And with Themoud who hewed out the rocks in the valley; |
| 10. * | And with Pharaoh the impaler; |
| 11. * | Who all committed excesses in the lands, |
| 12. * | And multiplied wickedness therein. |
| 13. * | Wherefore thy Lord let loose on them the scourge of chastisement, |
| 14. * | For thy Lord standeth on a watch tower. |
| 15. * | As to man, when his Lord trieth him and honoureth him and is bounteous to him, Then saith he, "My Lord honoureth me:" |
| 16. * | But when he proveth him and limiteth his gifts to him, He saith, "My Lord despiseth me." |
| 17. * | Aye. But ye honour not the orphan, |
| 18. * | Nor urge ye one another to feed the poor, |
| 19. * | And ye devour heritages, devouring greedily, |
| 20. * | And ye love riches with exceeding love. |
| 21. * | Aye. But when the earth shall be crushed with crushing, crushing, |
| 22. * | And thy Lord shall come and the angels rank on rank, |
| 23. * | And Hell on that day shall be moved up,-Man shall on that day remember himself. But how shall remembrance help him? |
| 24. * | He shall say, Oh! would that I had prepared for this my life! |
| 25. * | On that day none shall punish as God punisheth, |
| 26. * | And none shall bind with such bonds as He. |
| 27. * | Oh, thou soul which art at rest, |
| 28. * | Return to thy Lord, pleased, and pleasing him: |
| 29. * | Enter thou among my servants, |
| 30. * | And enter thou my Paradise. |