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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
- By the Break of Day
- By the Nights twice five;
- By the Even and Odd (contrasted);
- And by the Night when it passeth away
- Is there (not) in these and adjuration (or evidence) for those who understand?
- Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the `Ad (people)
- Of the (city of) Iram with lofty pillars
- The like of which were not produced in (all) the land?
- And with the Thamud (people) who cut out (huge) rocks in the valley?- -
- And with Pharaoh Lord of Stakes?
- (All) these transgressed Beyond bounds in the lands.
- And heaped therein Mischief (on mischief).
- Therefore did thy Lord pour on them a scourge of diverse chastisement:
- For thy Lord is (As a Guardian) on a watch-tower.
- Now as for man when his Lord trieth him giving him honor and gifts then saith he (puffed up) "My Lord hath honored me."
- But when He trieth him restricting his subsistence for him then saith he (in despair) "My Lord hath humiliated me!"
- Nay nay! but ye honor not the orphans!
- Nor do ye encourage one another to feed the poor!
- And ye devour inheritance all with greed.
- And ye love wealth with inordinate love!
- Nay! when the earth is pounded to powder
- And thy Lord cometh and His angels rank upon rank
- And Hell that Day is brought (face to face) on that Day will man remember but how will that remembrance profit him?
- He will say: "Ah! would that I had sent forth (Good Deeds) for (this) my (Future) Life."
- For that Day His Chastisement will be such as none (else) can inflict
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