The Emissaries

The Koran





077.001
By the emissary winds, (sent) one after another

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By the raging hurricanes,

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By those which cause earth's vegetation to revive;

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By those who winnow with a winnowing,

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By those who bring down the Reminder,

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To excuse or to warn,

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Surely that which ye are promised will befall.

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So when the stars are put out,

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And when the sky is riven asunder,

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And when the mountains are blown away,

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And when the messengers are brought unto their time appointed -

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For what day is the time appointed ?

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For the Day of Decision.

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And what will convey unto thee what the Day of Decision is! -

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Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

077.016
Destroyed We not the former folk,

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Then caused the latter folk to follow after ?

077.018
Thus deal We ever with the guilty.

077.019
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

077.020
Did We not create you from a base fluid

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Which We laid up in a safe abode

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For a known term ?

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Thus We arranged. How excellent is Our arranging!

077.024
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

077.025
Have We not made the earth a receptacle

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Both for the living and the dead,

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And placed therein high mountains and given you to drink sweet water therein ?

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Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

077.029
(It will be said unto them:) Depart unto that (doom) which ye used to deny;

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Depart unto the shadow falling threefold,

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(Which yet is) no relief nor shelter from the flame.

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Lo! it throweth up sparks like the castles,

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(Or) as it might be camels of bright yellow hue.

077.034
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

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This is a day wherein they speak not,

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Nor are they suffered to put forth excuses.

077.037
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

077.038
This is the Day of Decision, We have brought you and the men of old together.

077.039
If now ye have any wit, outwit Me.

077.040
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

077.041
Lo! those who kept their duty are amid shade and fountains,

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And fruits such as they desire.

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(Unto them it is said:) Eat, drink and welcome, O ye blessed, in return for what ye did.

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Thus do We reward the good.

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Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

077.046
Eat and take your ease (on earth) a little. Lo! ye are guilty.

077.047
Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

077.048
When it is said unto them: Bow down, they bow not down!

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Woe unto the repudiators on that day!

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In what statement, after this, will they believe ?