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Arise and warn!
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Thy Lord magnify,
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Thy raiment purify,
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Pollution shun!
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And show not favour, seeking wordly gain!
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For the sake of thy Lord, be patient!
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For when the trumpet shall sound,
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Surely that day will be a day of anguish,
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Not of ease, for disbelievers.
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Leave Me (to deal) with him whom I created lonely,
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And then bestowed upon him ample means,
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And sons abiding in his presence
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And made (life) smooth for him.
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Yet he desireth that I should give more.
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Nay! For lo! he hath been stubborn to Our revelations.
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On him I shall impose a fearful doom.
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For lo! he did consider; then he planned -
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(Self-)destroyed is he, how he planned!
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Again (self-)destroyed is he, how he planned! -
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Then looked he,
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Then frowned he and showed displeasure.
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Then turned he away in pride
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And said: This is naught else than magic from of old;
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This is naught else than speech of mortal man.
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Him shall I fling unto the burning.
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- Ah, what will convey unto thee what that burning is! -
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It leaveth naught; it spareth naught
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It shrivelleth the man.
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Above it are nineteen.
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We have appointed only angels to be wardens of the Fire, and their number have We made to be a stumbling-block for those who disbelieve; that those to whom
the Scripture hath been given may have certainty, and that believers may increase in
faith; and that those to whom the Scripture hath been given and believers may not
doubt; and that those in whose hearts there is disease, and disbelievers, may say:
What meaneth Allah by this similitude ? Thus Allah sendeth astray whom He will,
and whom He will He guideth. None knoweth the hosts of thy Lord save Him. This is
naught else than a Reminder unto mortals.
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Nay, by the Moon
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And the night when it withdraweth
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And the dawn when it shineth forth,
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Lo! this is one of the greatest (portents)
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As a warning unto men,
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Unto him of you who will advance or hang back.
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Every soul is a pledge for its own deeds;
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Save those who will stand on the right hand.
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In gardens they will ask one another
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Concerning the guilty:
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What hath brought you to this burning ?
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They will answer: We were not of those who prayed
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Nor did we feed the wretched.
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We used to wade (in vain dispute) with (all) waders,
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And we used to deny the Day of Judgment,
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Till the Inevitable came unto us.
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The mediation of no mediators will avail them then.
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Why now turn they away from the Admonishment,
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As they were frightened asses
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Fleeing from a lion ?
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Nay, but everyone of them desireth that he should be given open pages (from Allah).
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Nay, verily. They fear not the Hereafter.
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Nay, verily. Lo! this is an Admonishment.
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So whosoever will may heed.
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And they will not heed unless Allah willeth (it). He is the fount of fear. He is the fount of Mercy.