| 1 | By the (angels) who tear out (the souls of the wicked) with violence; | |
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| 2 | By those who gently draw out (the souls of the blessed); | |
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| 3 | And by those who glide along (on errands of mercy), | |
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| 4 | Then press forward as in a race, | |
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| 5 | Then arrange to do (the Commands of their Lord), | |
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| 6 | One Day everything that can be in commotion will be in violent commotion, | |
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| 7 | Followed by oft-repeated (commotions): | |
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| 8 | Hearts that Day will be in agitation; | |
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| 9 | Cast down will be (their owners') eyes. | |
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| 10 | They say (now): "What! shall we indeed be returned to (our) former state? | |
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| 11 | "What! - when we shall have become rotten bones?" | |
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| 12 | They say: "It would, in that case, be a return with loss!" | |
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| 13 | But verily, it will be but a single (Compelling) Cry, | |
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| 14 | When, behold, they will be in the (full) awakening (to Judgment). | |
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| 15 | Has the story of Moses reached thee? | |
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| 16 | Behold, thy Lord did call to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa:- | |
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| 17 | "Go thou to Pharaoh for he has indeed transgressed all bounds: | |
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| 18 | "And say to him, 'Wouldst thou that thou shouldst be purified (from sin)?- | |
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| 19 | "'And that I guide thee to thy Lord, so thou shouldst fear Him?'" | |
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| 20 | Then did (Moses) show him the Great Sign. | |
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| 21 | But (Pharaoh) rejected it and disobeyed (guidance); | |
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| 22 | Further, he turned his back, striving hard (against Allah). | |
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| 23 | Then he collected (his men) and made a proclamation, | |
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| 24 | Saying, "I am your Lord, Most High". | |
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| 25 | But Allah did punish him, (and made an) example of him, - in the Hereafter, as in this life. | |
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| 26 | Verily in this is an instructive warning for whosoever feareth (Allah). | |
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| 27 | What! Are ye the more difficult to create or the heaven (above)? (Allah) hath constructed it: | |
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| 28 | On high hath He raised its canopy, and He hath given it order and perfection. | |
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| 29 | Its night doth He endow with darkness, and its splendour doth He bring out (with light). | |
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| 30 | And the earth, moreover, hath He extended (to a wide expanse); | |
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| 31 | He draweth out therefrom its moisture and its pasture; | |
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| 32 | And the mountains hath He firmly fixed;- | |
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| 33 | For use and convenience to you and your cattle. | |
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| 34 | Therefore, when there comes the great, overwhelming (Event),- | |
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| 35 | The Day when man shall remember (all) that he strove for, | |
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| 36 | And Hell-Fire shall be placed in full view for (all) to see,- | |
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| 37 | Then, for such as had transgressed all bounds, | |
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| 38 | And had preferred the life of this world, | |
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| 39 | The Abode will be Hell-Fire; | |
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| 40 | And for such as had entertained the fear of standing before their Lord's (tribunal) and had restrained (their) soul from lower desires, | |
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| 41 | Their abode will be the Garden. | |
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| 42 | They ask thee about the Hour,-'When will be its appointed time? | |
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| 43 | Wherein art thou (concerned) with the declaration thereof? | |
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| 44 | With thy Lord in the Limit fixed therefor. | |
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| 45 | Thou art but a Warner for such as fear it. | |
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| 46 | The Day they see it, (It will be) as if they had tarried but a single evening, or (at most till) the following morn! | |
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