CHAPTER 44.  THE SMOKE                                                              SECTION 1.  PART XXV

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BENEFICENT GOD

2  BY THE BOOK THAT EXPLAINS THINGS CLEARLY

3  WE SENT IT DOWN DURING A BLESSED EVE 
TO WARN AGAINST INIQUITY

4  IN IT IS MADE EVERY AFFAIR OF WISDOM DISTINCTLY

5  BY COMMAND FROM OUR PRESENCE FOR WE CONSTANTLY
SEND DOWN REVELATIONS CONSISTENTLY

6  AS A MERCY FROM YOUR LORD, FOR HE IS ALL HEARING
AND KNOWING OF ALL THINGS 

7  HE IS THE LORD OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH 
AND ALL BETWEEN THEM IF YOU WOULD BE SURE 

8  THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
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HE IS THE LORD AND CHERISHER 
OF YOU AND YOUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS

9  YET THEY PLAY ABOUT AS DOUBTERS

10  THEN WATCH FOR THE DAY THAT THE SKY WILL SURELY
BRING FORTH A KIND OF SMOKE OR MIST VISIBLY 

11  ENVELOPING THE PEOPLE AND THIS WILL BE A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

12  THEY WILL SAY, OUR LORD REMOVE FROM US THE PENALTY 
FOR NOW WE DO BELIEVE TRULY

13  BUT HOW WILL THE MESSAGE BE EFFECTUAL FOR THEM 
SEEING THAT AN APOSTLE EXPLAINING TO THEM 
OUR MESSAGES HAS ALREADY COME TO THEM?

14  YET THEY TURN AWAY FROM HIM 
AND SAY, A MAN POSSESSED AND OTHERS HAVE TUTORED HIM

15  WE WILL REMOVE THE PENALTY FOR A FEW DAYS
BUT YOU WILL REVERT TO YOUR EVIL WAYS

16  ON THE DAY WE WILL SEIZE YOU WITH A MIGHTY SEIZING
WE WILL THEN EXACT RETRIBUTION FOR YOUR REJECTING

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17  WE DID BEFORE THEM TRY PHARAOH'S PEOPLE 
THERE CAME TO THEM AN APOSTLE MOST HONORABLE

18  SAYING, RESTORE THE SERVANTS OF GOD TO ME
I AM TO YOU AN APOSTLE TRUSTWORTHY 

19  AND BE NOT ARROGANT AGAINST GOD FOR SURELY 
I COME TO YOU WITH MANIFEST AUTHORITY

20  FOR ME I HAVE SOUGHT SAFETY 
WITH MY LORD AND YOUR LORD AGAINST YOUR INJURING ME

21  AND IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE ME 
AT LEAST KEEP YOURSELVES AWAY FROM ME

22  BUT THEY WERE AGGRESSIVE AND ACTED ARROGANTLY 
HE CRIED, LORD, THESE PEOPLE ARE GIVEN TO INIQUITY

23  CAME THE REPLY, MARCH FORTH WITH MY SERVANTS NIGHTLY 
FOR YOU WILL BE PURSUED MOST ASSUREDLY

24  AND LEAVE THE SEA DIVIDED QUIETLY
FOR THEY ARE A HOST TO BE DROWNED COMPLETELY

25  HOW MANY GARDENS AND SPRINGS OWNED BY THEM
DID THEY LEAVE BEHIND THEM

26  AND CORN FIELDS AND NOBLE BUILDINGS

27  AND GOOD THINGS IN WHICH THEY WERE REJOICING

28  SO WAS THE END OF THEM 
AND WE MADE OTHER PEOPLE INHERIT THEM

29  NEITHER HEAVEN NOR EARTH SHED A TEAR OVER THEM
NOR WAS ANY RESPITE GIVEN TO THEM  

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30  WE DID DELIVER BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 
FROM A HUMILIATING PENALTY COMING TO THEIR PEOPLE

31  INFLICTED BY PHARAOH FOR ARROGANT WAS HE
AMONG THOSE WHO TRANSGRESSED INORDINATELY 

32  AND WE CHOSE THEM ABOVE THE NATIONS KNOWINGLY

33  AND GRANTED THEM SIGNS TO TRY THEM MANIFESTLY

34  AS TO THESE THEY SAY ARROGANTLY

35  THERE IS NOTHING BEYOND OUR FIRST DEATH 
AND WE WILL NOT BE RAISED AGAIN AFTER DEATH

36  THEN BRING BACK OUR FOREFATHERS 
IF WHAT YOU SAY IS TRUE FOR SURE

37  ARE THEY BETTER THAN TUBBA'S PEOPLE 
WE DESTROYED THEM FOR THEIR EVILS

38  THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND ALL BETWEEN THEM 
NOT IN IDLE SPORT DID WE CREATE THEM

39  NOT BUT FOR JUST ENDS DID WE CREATE THEM
BUT THIS IS NOT UNDERSTOOD BY MOST OF THEM

40  THE DAY OF SORTING OUT IS THE TIME APPOINTED FOR THEM

41  THE DAY WHEN NO CLIENT CAN BE AVAILED BY HIS PROTECTOR
NOR WILL THEY BE ABLE TO RECEIVE ANY HELPER

42  EXCEPT THOSE WHO RECEIVE GOD'S MERCY 
FOR HE IS MOST MERCIFUL AND MIGHTY

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CHAPTER 44.  THE SMOKE                                                              SECTION 3.  PART XXV

43  THE ZAQQUM TREE 

44  WILL BE THE FOOD OF THOSE WHO ACT SINFULLY

45  LIKE MOLTEN BRASS IT WILL BOIL IN THEIR INSIDES PAINFULLY

46  LIKE THE BOILING OF SCALDING WATER

47  SEIZE HIM AND DRAG HIM INTO THE MIDST OF THE FIRE

48  THEN POUR OVER HIS HEAD BOILING WATER

49  TASTE THIS, YOU WERE MIGHTY AND FULL OF HONOR

50  THIS IS THAT OF WHAT YOU USED TO ACT DOUBTFULLY

51  THE RIGHTEOUS WILL BE IN A POSITION OF SECURITY

52  AMONG GARDENS AND SPRINGS ETERNALLY

53  DRESSED IN FINE SILK AND RICH BROCADE FACING EACH OTHER

54  WITH COMPANIONS BEAUTIFUL AND PURE JOINED TOGETHER

55  THERE THEY CALL FOR EVERY KIND OF FRUIT IN PEACE AND SECURE

56  NOR WILL THEY THERE TASTE DEATH EXCEPT FOR THE FIRST 
AND HE WILL PRESERVE THEM FROM THE PENALTY OF THE FIRE

57  A GIFT FROM YOUR LORD'S BOUNTY
AND THAT WILL BE THE SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT SURELY

58  IN YOUR TONGUE WE HAVE MADE THIS QURAN EASY 
IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY TAKE HEED

59  SO WAIT AND WATCH, FOR SURELY
THEY TOO ARE WAITING AND WATCHING TO SEE

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