An-Nazi'at
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By those [angels] who extract with violence
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And [by] those who remove with ease
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And [by] those who glide [as if] swimming
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And those who race each other in a race
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And those who arrange [each] matter,
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On the Day the blast [of the Horn] will convulse [creation],
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There will follow it the subsequent [one].
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Hearts, that Day, will tremble,
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Their eyes humbled.
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They are [presently] saying, "Will we indeed be returned to [our]
former state [of life]?
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Even if we should be decayed bones?
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They say, "That, then, would be a losing return."
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Indeed, it will be but one shout,
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And suddenly they will be [alert] upon the earth's surface.
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Has there reached you the story of Moses? -
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When his Lord called to him in the sacred valley of Tuwa,
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"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
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And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself
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And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"
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And he showed him the greatest sign,
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But Pharaoh denied and disobeyed.
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Then he turned his back, striving.
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And he gathered [his people] and called out
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And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
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So Allah seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first
[transgression].
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Indeed in that is a warning for whoever would fear [Allah].
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Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? Allah constructed
it.
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He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
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And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
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And after that He spread the earth.
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He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
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And the mountains He set firmly
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As provision for you and your grazing livestock.
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But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -
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The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
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And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -
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So as for he who transgressed
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And preferred the life of the world,
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Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
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But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul
from [unlawful] inclination,
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Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.
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They ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
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In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
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To your Lord is its finality.
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You are only a warner for those who fear it.
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It will be, on the Day they see it, as though they had not remained [in
the world] except for an afternoon or a morning thereof.
'Abasa
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The Prophet frowned and turned away
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Because there came to him the blind man, [interrupting].
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But what would make you perceive, [O Muhammad], that perhaps he might be
purified
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Or be reminded and the remembrance would benefit him?
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As for he who thinks himself without need,
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To him you give attention.
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And not upon you [is any blame] if he will not be purified.
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But as for he who came to you striving [for knowledge]
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While he fears [Allah],
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From him you are distracted.
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No! Indeed, these verses are a reminder;
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So whoever wills may remember it.
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[It is recorded] in honored sheets,
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Exalted and purified,
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[Carried] by the hands of messenger-angels,
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Noble and dutiful.
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Cursed is man; how disbelieving is he.
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From what substance did He create him?
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From a sperm-drop He created him and destined for him;
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Then He eased the way for him;
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Then He causes his death and provides a grave for him.
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Then when He wills, He will resurrect him.
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No! Man has not yet accomplished what He commanded him.
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Then let mankind look at his food -
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How We poured down water in torrents,
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Then We broke open the earth, splitting [it with sprouts],
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And caused to grow within it grain
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And grapes and herbage
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And olive and palm trees
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And gardens of dense shrubbery
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And fruit and grass -
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[As] enjoyment for you and your grazing livestock.
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But when there comes the Deafening Blast
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On the Day a man will flee from his brother
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And his mother and his father
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And his wife and his children,
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For every man, that Day, will be a matter adequate for him.
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[Some] faces, that Day, will be bright -
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Laughing, rejoicing at good news.
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And [other] faces, that Day, will have upon them dust.
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Blackness will cover them.
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Those are the disbelievers, the wicked ones.
At-Takwir
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When the sun is wrapped up [in darkness]
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And when the stars fall, dispersing,
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And when the mountains are removed
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And when full-term she-camels are neglected
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And when the wild beasts are gathered
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And when the seas are filled with flame
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And when the souls are paired
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And when the girl [who was] buried alive is asked
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For what sin she was killed
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And when the pages are made public
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And when the sky is stripped away
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And when Hellfire is set ablaze
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And when Paradise is brought near,
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A soul will [then] know what it has brought [with it].
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So I swear by the retreating stars -
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Those that run [their courses] and disappear -
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And by the night as it closes in
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And by the dawn when it breathes
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[That] indeed, the Qur'an is a word [conveyed by] a noble messenger
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[Who is] possessed of power and with the Owner of the Throne, secure [in
position],
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Obeyed there [in the heavens] and trustworthy.
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And your companion is not [at all] mad.
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And he has already seen Gabriel in the clear horizon.
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And Muhammad is not a withholder of [knowledge of] the unseen.
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And the Qur'an is not the word of a devil, expelled [from the heavens].
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So where are you going?
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It is not except a reminder to the worlds
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For whoever wills among you to take a right course.
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And you do not will except that Allah wills - Lord of the worlds.
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