| 1 | (The Prophet) frowned and turned away, | |
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| 2 | Because there came to him the blind man (interrupting). | |
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| 3 | But what could tell thee but that perchance he might grow (in spiritual understanding)?- | |
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| 4 | Or that he might receive admonition, and the teaching might profit him? | |
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| 5 | As to one who regards Himself as self-sufficient, | |
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| 6 | To him dost thou attend; | |
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| 7 | Though it is no blame to thee if he grow not (in spiritual understanding). | |
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| 8 | But as to him who came to thee striving earnestly, | |
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| 9 | And with fear (in his heart), | |
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| 10 | Of him wast thou unmindful. | |
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| 11 | By no means (should it be so)! For it is indeed a Message of instruction: | |
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| 12 | Therefore let whoso will, keep it in remembrance. | |
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| 13 | (It is) in Books held (greatly) in honour, | |
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| 14 | Exalted (in dignity), kept pure and holy, | |
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| 15 | (Written) by the hands of scribes- | |
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| 16 | Honourable and Pious and Just. | |
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| 17 | Woe to man! What hath made him reject Allah; | |
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| 18 | From what stuff hath He created him? | |
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| 19 | From a sperm-drop: He hath created him, and then mouldeth him in due proportions; | |
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| 20 | Then doth He make His path smooth for him; | |
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| 21 | Then He causeth him to die, and putteth him in his grave; | |
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| 22 | Then, when it is His Will, He will raise him up (again). | |
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| 23 | By no means hath he fulfilled what Allah hath commanded him. | |
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| 24 | Then let man look at his food, (and how We provide it): | |
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| 25 | For that We pour forth water in abundance, | |
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| 26 | And We split the earth in fragments, | |
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| 27 | And produce therein corn, | |
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| 28 | And Grapes and nutritious plants, | |
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| 29 | And Olives and Dates, | |
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| 30 | And enclosed Gardens, dense with lofty trees, | |
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| 31 | And fruits and fodder,- | |
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| 32 | For use and convenience to you and your cattle. | |
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| 33 | At length, when there comes the Deafening Noise,- | |
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| 34 | That Day shall a man flee from his own brother, | |
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| 35 | And from his mother and his father, | |
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| 36 | And from his wife and his children. | |
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| 37 | Each one of them, that Day, will have enough concern (of his own) to make him indifferent to the others. | |
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| 38 | Some faces that Day will be beaming, | |
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| 39 | Laughing, rejoicing. | |
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| 40 | And other faces that Day will be dust-stained, | |
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| 41 | Blackness will cover them: | |
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| 42 | Such will be the Rejecters of Allah, the doers of iniquity. | |
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