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| 1. * | One demanded and called for vengeance to fall on the unbelievers: |
| 2. * | There shall be none to avert the same |
| 3. * | from being inflicted by God, the possessor of the steps; |
| 4. * | by which the angels ascend unto Him, and the spirit Gabriel also, in a day whose space is fifty thousand years: |
| 5. * | Wherefore bear the insults of the Meccans with becoming patience; |
| 6. * | for they see their punishment afar off, |
| 7. * | but We see it nigh at hand. |
| 8. * | On a certain day the heaven shall become like molten brass, |
| 9. * | and the mountains like wool of various colours, scattered abroad by the wind: |
| 10. * | And a friend shall not ask a friend concerning his condition, although |
| 11. * | they see one another. The wicked shall wish to redeem himself from the punishment of that day, by giving up his children, |
| 12. * | and his wife, and his brother, |
| 13. * | and his kindred who shewed kindness unto him, |
| 14. * | and all who are in the earth; and that this might deliver him: |
| 15. * | By no means: For hell fire, |
| 16. * | dragging them by their scalps, |
| 17. * | shall call him who shall have turned his back, and fled from the faith, |
| 18. * | and shall have amassed riches, and covetously hoarded them. |
| 19. * | Verily man is created extreamly impatient: |
| 20. * | When evil toucheth him, he is full of complaint; |
| 21. * | but when good befalleth him, he becometh niggardly: |
| 22. * | Except those who are devoutly given, |
| 23. * | and who persevere in their prayers; |
| 24. * | and those of whose substance a due and certain portion is ready to be given |
| 25. * | unto him who asketh, and him who is forbidden by shame to ask: |
| 26. * | And those who sincerely believe the day of judgement, |
| 27. * | and who dread the punishment of their Lord: |
| 28. * | -- For there is none secure from the punishment of their Lord: -- |
| 29. * | And who abstain from the carnal knowledge |
| 30. * | of women other than their wives, or the slaves which their right hands possess; -- for as to them they shall be blameless; |
| 31. * | but whoever coveteth any woman besides these, they are transgressors: -- |
| 32. * | And those who faithfully keep what they are intrusted with, and their covenant; |
| 33. * | and who are upright in their testimonies, |
| 34. * | and who carefully observe the requisite rites in their prayers: |
| 35. * | These shall dwell amidst gardens, highly honoured. |
| 36. * | What aileth the unbelievers, that they run before thee |
| 37. * | in companies, on the right hand and on the left? |
| 38. * | Doth every man of them wish to enter into a garden of delight? |
| 39. * | By no means: Verily We have created them of that which they know. |
| 40. * | I swear by the Lord of the east and of the west, that We are able to destroy them, |
| 41. * | and to substitute better than them in their room; neither are We to be prevented, if We shall please so to do. |
| 42. * | Wherefore suffer them to wade in vain disputes, and to amuse themselves with sport: Until they meet their day with which they have been threatened; |
| 43. * | the day whereon they shall come forth hastily from their graves, as though they were troops hastening to their standard: |
| 44. * | Their looks shall be downcast; ignominy shall attend them. This is the day with which they have been threatened. |