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The Sure Reality!
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What is the Sure Reality?
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And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?
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The Thamud and the ´Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!
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But the Thamud,- they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!
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And the ´Ad, they were destroyed by a furious Wind, exceedingly violent;
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He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession: so that thou couldst see the (whole) people lying prostrate in its (path), as they had been roots of hollow palm-trees tumbled down!
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Then seest thou any of them left surviving?
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And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.
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And disobeyed (each) the messenger of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.
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We, when the water (of Noah´s Flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating (Ark),
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That We might make it a Message unto you, and that ears (that should hear the tale and) retain its memory should bear its (lessons) in remembrance.
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Then, when one blast is sounded on the Trumpet,
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And the earth is moved, and its mountains, and they are crushed to powder at one stroke,-
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On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass.
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And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,
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And the angels will be on its sides, and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord above them.
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That Day shall ye be brought to Judgment: not an act of yours that ye hide will be hidden.
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Then he that will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Ah here! Read ye my Record!
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"I did really understand that my Account would (One Day) reach me!"
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And he will be in a life of Bliss,
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In a Garden on high,
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The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.
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"Eat ye and drink ye, with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you, in the days that are gone!"
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And he that will be given his Record in his left hand, will say: "Ah! Would that my Record had not been given to me!
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"And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!
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"Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!
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"Of no profit to me has been my wealth!
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"My power has perished from me!"...
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(The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,
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"And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.
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"Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!
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"This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High.
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"And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!
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"So no friend hath he here this Day.
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"Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,
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"Which none do eat but those in sin."
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So I do call to witness what ye see,
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And what ye see not,
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That this is verily the word of an honoured messenger;
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It is not the word of a poet: little it is ye believe!
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Nor is it the word of a soothsayer: little admonition it is ye receive.
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(This is) a Message sent down from the Lord of the Worlds.
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And if the messenger were to invent any sayings in Our name,
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We should certainly seize him by his right hand,
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And We should certainly then cut off the artery of his heart:
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Nor could any of you withhold him (from Our wrath).
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But verily this is a Message for the Allah-fearing.
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And We certainly know that there are amongst you those that reject (it).
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But truly (Revelation) is a cause of sorrow for the Unbelievers.
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But verily it is Truth of assured certainty.
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So glorify the name of thy Lord Most High.