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IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE MOST GRACIOUS, THE DISPENSER OF
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Description of the day of resurrection and the day of judgement
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1 | OH, THE LAYING-BARE of the truth!1 | ||
2 | How awesome that laying-bare of the truth! | |||
3 | And what could make thee conceive what that laying-bare of the truth will be?2 | |||
4 | THE LIE gave [the tribes of] Thamud and 'Ad to [all tidings of] that sudden calamity!3 | |||
5 | Now as for the Thamud - they were destroyed by a violent upheaval [of the earth];4 | |||
6 | and as for the 'Ad - they were destroyed by a stormwind furiously raging, | |||
7 | which He willed against them for seven nights and eight days without cease, so that in the end thou couldst see those people laid low [in death], as though they were so many [uprooted] trunks of hollow palm trees: | |||
8 | and dost thou now see any remnant of them? | |||
9 | And there was Pharaoh, too, and [many of] those who lived before him, and the cities that were overthrown5 - [all of them] indulged in sin upon sin | |||
10 | and rebelled against their Sustainer's apostles: and so He took them to task with a punishing grasp exceedingly severe! | |||
11 | [And] behold: when the waters [of Noah's flood] burst beyond all limits, it was We who caused you6 to be borne [to safety] in that floating ark, | |||
12 | so that We might make all this7 a [lasting] reminder to you all, and that every wide-awake ear might consciously take it in. | |||
13 | Hence, [bethink yourselves of the Last Hour,] when the trumpet [of judgment] shall be sounded with a single blast, | |||
14 | and the earth and the mountains shall be lifted up and crushed with a single stroke! | |||
15 | And so, that which must come to pass8 will on that Day have come to pass; | |||
16 | and the sky will be rent asunder9 for, frail will it have become on that Day -; | |||
17 | and the angels [will appear] at its ends,10 and, above them, eight will bear aloft on that Day the throne of thy Sustainer's almightiness....11 | |||
18 | On that Day you shall be brought to judgment: not [even] the most hidden of your deeds will remain hidden. | |||
Fortunate people and their reward and Unfortunate people and their punishment
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19 | Now as for him whose record shall be placed in his right hand,12 he will exclaim: "Come you all! Read this my record! | ||
20 | Behold, I did know that [one day] I would have to face my account!"13 | |||
21 | And so he will find himself in a happy state of life, | |||
22 | in a lofty paradise, | |||
23 | with its fruits within easy reach. | |||
24 | [And all who are thus blest will be told:] "Eat and drink with good cheer in return for all [the good deeds] that you have sent ahead in days gone by!" | |||
25 | But as for him whose record shall be placed in his left hand,14 he will exclaim: "Oh, would that I had never been shown this my record, | |||
26 | and neither known this my account! | |||
27 | Oh, would that this [death of mine] had been the end of me! | |||
28 | Of no avail to me is all that I have [ever] possessed, | |||
29 | [and] all my power of argument has died away from me!"15 | |||
30 | [Thereupon the command will go forth:] "Lay hold of him, and shackle him,16 | |||
31 | and then let him enter hell, | |||
32 | and then thrust him into a chain [of other sinners like him17 - a chain] the length whereof is seventy cubits:18 | |||
33 | for, behold, he did not believe in God, the Tremendous, | |||
34 | and did not feel any urge19 to feed the needy: | |||
35 | and so, no friend has he here today, | |||
36 | nor any food save the filth | |||
37 | which none but the sinners eat!"20 | |||
Al-Quran is the word of Allah and not of the Prophet, and is a reminder for those who fear Allah (God)
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38 | BUT NAY! I call to witness all that you can see, | ||
39 | as well as all that you cannot see!21 | |||
40 | Behold, this [Qur'an] is indeed the [inspired] word of a noble apostle, | |||
41 | and is not - however little you may [be prepared to] believe it - the word of a poet; | |||
42 | and neither is it - however little you may [be prepared to] take it to heart - the word of a soothsayer: | |||
43 | [it is] a revelation from the Sustainer of all the worlds. | |||
44 | Now if he [whom We have entrusted with it] had dared to attribute some [of his own] sayings unto Us, | |||
45 | We would indeed have seized him by his right hand,22 | |||
46 | and would indeed have cut his life-vein, | |||
47 | and none of you could have saved him! | |||
48 | And, verily, this [Qur'an] is a reminder to all the God-conscious.23 | |||
49 | And, behold, well do We know that among you are such as will give the lie to it: | |||
50 | yet, behold, this [rejection] will indeed become a source of bitter regret for all who deny the truth [of God's revelation] - | |||
51 | for, verily, it is truth absolute! | |||
52 | Extol, then, the limitless glory of thy Sustainer's mighty name! |
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