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Whereof do they question one another?

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verse 2

(It is) of the awful tidings,

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verse 3

Concerning which they are in disagreement.

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verse 4

Nay, but they will come to know!

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verse 5

Nay, again, but they will come to know!

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verse 6

Have We not made the earth an expanse,

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verse 7

And the high hills bulwarks?

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verse 8

And We have created you in pairs,

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verse 9

And have appointed your sleep for repose,

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verse 10

And have appointed the night as a cloak,

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verse 11

And have appointed the day for livelihood.

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verse 12

And We have built above you seven strong (heavens),

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verse 13

And have appointed a dazzling lamp,

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verse 14

And have sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,

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verse 15

Thereby to produce grain and plant,

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verse 16

And gardens of thick foliage.

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verse 17

Lo! the Day of Decision is a fixed time,

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verse 18

A day when the trumpet is blown and ye come in multitudes,

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verse 19

And the heaven is opened and becometh as gates,

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verse 20

And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage.

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verse 21

Lo! hell lurketh in ambush,

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verse 22

A home for the rebellious.

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verse 23

They will abide therein for ages.

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verse 24

Therein taste they neither coolness nor (any) drink

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verse 25

Save boiling water and a paralysing cold:

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verse 26

Reward proportioned (to their evil deeds).

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verse 27

For lo! they looked not for a reckoning;

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verse 28

They called Our revelations false with strong denial.

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verse 29

Everything have We recorded in a Book.

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verse 30

So taste (of that which ye have earned). No increase do We give you save of torment.

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verse 31

Lo! for the duteous is achievement -

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verse 32

Gardens enclosed and vineyards,

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verse 33

And voluptuous women of equal age;

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verse 34

And a full cup.

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verse 35

There hear they never vain discourse, nor lying -

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verse 36

Requital from thy Lord - a gift in payment -

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verse 37

Lord of the heavens and the earth, and (all) that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse.

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verse 38

On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent alloweth and who speaketh right.

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verse 39

That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord.

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verse 40

Lo! We warn you of a doom at hand, a day whereon a man will look on that which his own hands have sent before, and the disbeliever will cry: “Would that I were dust!”

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