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| 1. * | The infallible! |
| 2. * | What is the infallible? |
| 3. * | And what shall cause thee to understand what the infallible is? |
| 4. * | The tribes of Thamud and Ad denied as a falsehood the day which shall strike men's hearts with terror. |
| 5. * | But Thamud were destroyed by a terrible noise: |
| 6. * | And Ad were destroyed by a roaring and furious wind; |
| 7. * | which God caused to assail them for seven nights and eight days successively: Thou mightest have seen people, during the same, lying prostrate, as though they had been the roots, of hollow palm-trees; |
| 8. * | and couldest thou have seen any of them remaining? |
| 9. * | Pharaoh also, and those who were before him, and the cities which were overthrown, were guilty of sin; |
| 10. * | and they severally were disobedient to the Apostle of their Lord; wherefore He chastised them with an abundant chastisement. |
| 11. * | When the water of the deluge arose, We carried you in the ark which swam thereon; |
| 12. * | that We might make the same a memorial unto you, and the retaining ear might retain it. |
| 13. * | And when one blast shall sound the trumpet, |
| 14. * | and the earth shall be moved from its place, and the mountains also, and shall be dashed in pieces at one stroke: |
| 15. * | On that day the inevitable hour of judgement shall suddenly come; |
| 16. * | and the heavens shall cleave in sunder, and shall fall in pieces, on that day: |
| 17. * | And the angels shall be on the sides thereof; and eight shall bear the throne of thy Lord above them, on that day. |
| 18. * | On that day ye shall be presented before the judgement seat of God; and none of your secret actions shall be hidden. |
| 19. * | And he who shall have his book delivered into his right hand, shall say, take ye, read this my book; |
| 20. * | verily I thought that I should be brought to this my account: |
| 21. * | He shall lead a pleasing life, |
| 22. * | in a lofty garden, |
| 23. * | the fruits whereof shall be near to gather. |
| 24. * | Eat and drink with easy digestion; because of the good works which ye sent before you, in the days which are past. |
| 25. * | But he who shall have his book delivered into his left hand, shall say, O that I had not received this my book; |
| 26. * | and that I had not known what this my account was! |
| 27. * | O that death had made an end of me! |
| 28. * | My riches have not profited me; |
| 29. * | and my power is passed from me. |
| 30. * | And God shall say to the keepers of hell, take him, and bind him, |
| 31. * | and cast him into hell to be burned; |
| 32. * | then put him into a chain of the length of seventy cubits: |
| 33. * | Because he believed not in the great God; |
| 34. * | and was not sollicitous to feed the poor: |
| 35. * | Wherefore this day he shall have no friend here; |
| 36. * | nor any food, but the filthy corruption flowing from the bodies of the damned, |
| 37. * | which none shall eat but the sinners. |
| 38. * | I swear by that which ye see, |
| 39. * | and that which ye see not, |
| 40. * | that this is the discourse of an honourable Apostle, |
| 41. * | and not the discourse of a poet: How little do ye believe! |
| 42. * | Neither is it the discourse of a soothsayer: How little are ye admonished! |
| 43. * | It is a revelation from the Lord of all creatures. |
| 44. * | If Mohammed had forged any part of these discourses concerning Us, |
| 45. * | verily We had taken him by the right hand, |
| 46. * | and had cut in sunder the vein of his heart; |
| 47. * | neither would We have withheld any of you from chastising him. |
| 48. * | And verily this book is an admonition unto the pious; |
| 49. * | and We well know that there are some of you who charge the same with imposture: |
| 50. * | But it shall surely be an occasion of grievous sighing unto the infidels; |
| 51. * | for it is the truth of a certianty. |
| 52. * | Wherefore praise the name of thy Lord, the great God. |