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| 1. * | By the angels who tear forth the souls of some with violence; |
| 2. * | and by those who draw forth the souls of others with gentleness; |
| 3. * | by those who glide swimmingly through the air with the commands of God; |
| 4. * | and those who precede and usher the righteous to paradise; |
| 5. * | and those who subordinately govern the affairs of this world: |
| 6. * | On a certain day, the disturbing blast of the trumpet shall disturb the universe; |
| 7. * | and the subsequent blast shall follow it. |
| 8. * | On that day men's hearts shall tremble: |
| 9. * | Their looks shall be cast down. |
| 10. * | The infidels say, shall we surely be made to return whence we came? |
| 11. * | After we shall have become rotten bones, shall we be again raised to life? |
| 12. * | They say, this then will be a return to loss. |
| 13. * | Verily it will be but one sounding of the trumpet, |
| 14. * | and behold, they shall appear alive on the face of the earth. |
| 15. * | Hath not the story of Moses reached thee? |
| 16. * | When his Lord called unto him in the holy valley Towa, saying, |
| 17. * | go unto Pharaoh; for he is insolently wicked: |
| 18. * | and say, hast thou a desire to become just and holy? |
| 19. * | And I will direct thee unto thy Lord, that thou mayest fear to transgress. |
| 20. * | And he shewed him the very great sign of the rod turned into a serpent: |
| 21. * | But he charged Moses with imposture, and rebelled against God. |
| 22. * | Then he turned back hastily; |
| 23. * | and he assembled the magicians, and cried aloud, saying, |
| 24. * | I am your supreme Lord. |
| 25. * | Wherefore God chastised him with the punishment of the life to come, and also of this present life. |
| 26. * | Verily herein is an example unto him who feareth to rebel. |
| 27. * | Are ye more difficult to create, or the heaven which God hath built? |
| 28. * | He hath raised the height thereof, and hath perfectly formed the same: |
| 29. * | And He hath made the night thereof dark, and hath produced the light thereof. |
| 30. * | After this, He stretched out the earth, |
| 31. * | whence He caused to spring forth the water thereof, and the pasture thereof; |
| 32. * | and He established the mountains, |
| 33. * | for the use of yourselves, and of your cattle. |
| 34. * | When the prevailing, the great day shall come, |
| 35. * | on that day shall a man call to remembrance what he hath purposely done: |
| 36. * | And hell shall be exposed to the view of the spectator. |
| 37. * | And whoso shall have transgressed, |
| 38. * | and shall have chosen this present life; |
| 39. * | verily hell shall be his abode: |
| 40. * | But whoso shall have dreaded the appearing before his Lord, and shall have refrained his soul from lust; |
| 41. * | verily paradise shall be his abode. |
| 42. * | They will ask thee concerning the last hour, when will be the fixed time thereof. |
| 43. * | By what means canst thou give any information of the same? |
| 44. * | Unto thy Lord belongeth the knowledge of the period thereof: |
| 45. * | And thou art only a warner, who fearest the same. |
| 46. * | The day whereon they shall see the same, it shall seem to them as though they had not tarried in the world longer than an evening, or a morning thereof. |