CHAPTER 50.  QAF                                                                           SECTION 1.  PART XXVI

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  ALMIGHTY GOD
BY THE GLORIOUS QURAN, YOU ARE THE APOSTLE OF GOD

2  THEY WONDER THAT A WARNER 
HAS COME TO THEM FROM AMONG THEIR CENTER 
THIS IS A STRANGE THING INDEED, SAY THE DISBELIEVERS

3  WHEN WE DIE AND BECOME DUST WILL WE LIVE AGAIN?  
THAT IS FAR FROM WHAT WE UNDERSTAND 

4  WE KNOW HOW MUCH THE EARTH TAKES AWAY OF THEM 
WITH US IS A RECORD REGARDING THE FULL ACCOUNT OF THEM

5  WHEN THE TRUTH COMES TO THEM THEY ARE IN REJECTION
SO THEY ARE THEREFORE IN A STATE OF CONFUSION

6  DO THEY NOT LOOK AT THE SKY AND SEE HOW WE HAVE MADE IT  
AND ADORNED IT AND THERE ARE NO FLAWS IN IT?

7  AND THE EARTH WE HAVE SPREAD IT AND SET ON IT 
MOUNTAINS STANDING FIRM AND PRODUCED IN IT 
EVERY KIND OF BEAUTIFUL GROWTH IN PAIRS IN IT

8  TO BE COMMEMORATED AND OBSERVED
BY EVERY DEVOTEE THAT TURNS TO HIS MAKER

9  WE SEND DOWN FROM THE SKY RAIN CHARGED WITH BLESSINGS 
AND WE PRODUCE WITH IT GARDENS AND GRAIN FOR HARVESTING

10  AND PALM TREES TALL IN STATURE
WITH SPIKES OF FLOWERS PILED ONE OVER ANOTHER

11  AS SUSTENANCE FOR GOD'S SERVANTS 
AND WE GIVE DEAD LAND NEW PROVISIONS 
AND SURELY SO WILL BE THE RESSURECTION

12  BEFORE THEM WAS DENIED THE HEREAFTER BY NOAH'S PEOPLE 
THE COMPANIONS OF THE RASS AND THE THAMUD PEOPLE

13   AND THE AD AND PHARAOH AND LOT'S PEOPLE

14  THE COMPANIONS OF THE WOOD AND TUBBA'S PEOPLE 
THEY ALL REJECTED THEIR COMMISSIONED APOSTLES 
AND MY WARNING TO THEM WAS DULY FULFILLED 

15  WERE WE THEN WEARY WITH THE FIRST CREATION 
THAT THEY SHOULD BE IN DOUBT ABOUT A NEW CREATION?

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CHAPTER 50.  QAF                                                                            SECTION 2.  PART XXVI

16  WE CREATED MAN AND WE KNOW OF HIM
WHAT DARK SUGGESTIONS HIS SOUL MAKES TO HIM 
FOR WE ARE NEARER THAN HIS JUGULAR VEIN IS TO HIM

17  WHEN THE TWO ANGELS APPOINTED TO LEARN HIS DOINGS 
ONE SITTING ON THE RIGHT AND ONE ON THE LEFT SITTING

18  NOT A WORD DOES HE UTTER 
BUT BY HIM THERE IS A WATCHER

19  AND THE STUPOR OF DEATH WILL BRING 
TRUTH BEFORE HIS EYES, THIS WAS THE THING 
WHICH YOU WERE TRYING SO HARD OF ESCAPING

20  AND THE TRUMPET WILL BE BLOWN AND THAT WILL INDEED
BE THE DAY IN WHICH THE WARNING HAD BEEN DECREED

21  AND THERE WILL COME FORTH EVERY CREATURE 
WITH EACH WILL BE AN ANGEL AS A DRIVER
AND AN ANGEL AS A WITNESS BEARER 

22  IT WILL BE SAID, YOU DID NOT TAKE HEED OF THIS DAY
AND NOW HAVE WE REMOVED YOUR VEIL AWAY
AND SHARP IS YOUR SIGHT THIS DAY

23  AND HIS COMPANION WILL SAY 
HERE IS HIS RECORD READY WITH ME TODAY

24  THE SENTENCE WILL BE, THROW INTO HELL 
EVERY CONTUMACIOUS UNGRATEFUL REBEL

25  WHO MADE WHAT WAS GOOD FORBIDDEN
AND CONTINUED IN TRANSGRESSIONS 
AND CAST DOUBTS AND SUSPICIONS  

26  WHO SET UP BESIDES GOD ANOTHER DEITY
THROW HIM INTO A SEVERE PENALTY

27  HIS COMPANION WILL SAY 
LORD, I DID NOT MAKE HIM STRAY
BUT HE WAS HIMSELF FAR ASTRAY

28  HE WILL BE NOT IN MY PRESENCE DISPUTING
I HAD ALREADY IN ADVANCE SENT YOU WARNING 

29  THE WORD CHANGES NOT BEFORE ME 
AND I DO NOT TREAT MY SERVANTS UNJUSTLY

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CHAPTER 50.  QAF                                                                            SECTION 3.  PART XXVI

30  ONE DAY WE WILL ASK, HELL ARE YOU FILLED? 
IT WILL SAY, ARE THERE ANY MORE TO COME STILL?

31  AND THE GARDEN WILL BE BROUGHT THAT DAY
NEAR TO THE RIGHTEOUS NO MORE A THING FAR AWAY

32  A VOICE WILL SAY, THIS IS WHAT WAS PROMISED TO YOU 
FOR EVERY ONE WHO TURNED TO GOD IN GRATITUDE
AND WHO KEPT HIS COVENANT AMONG YOU

33  WHO FEARED IN SECRET THE BENEFICENT
AND COMES WITH A HEART THAT IS PENITENT

34  ENTER IN IT IN PEACE AND SECURITY 
THIS IS THE DAY OF ETERNITY

35  THERE WILL BE FOR THEM THEREIN ALL THAT THEY WISH FOR
IN OUR PRESENCE AND MUCH MORE

36  BUT HOW MANY GENERATIONS DID WE DESTROY BEFORE THEM 
FOR THEIR SINS WHO WERE STRONGER IN POWER THAN THEM? 
WAS THE LAND NOT THEN WANDERED THROUGH BY THEM?
WAS THERE ANY PLACE OF ESCAPE FOR THEM?

37  SURELY IN THIS IS A REMINDER
FOR ANY WHO HAS A HEART AND LENDS AN EAR

38  HEAVEN AND EARTH AND ALL BETWEEN WERE CREATED BY US
IN SIX DAYS NOR DID ANY SENSE OF WEARINESS TOUCH US

39  BEAR PATIENTLY ALL OF THEIR TALKING
AND THEN BE REGULAR IN YOUR LORD'S PRAISING
BEFORE THE SUN'S RISING AND BEFORE ITS SETTING

40  AND DURING PART OF THE NIGHT ALSO PRAISE IN CELEBRATION
AND SO LIKEWISE AFTER THE POSTURES OF ADORATION

41  AND LISTEN FOR THE DAY WHEN THE CALLER 
WILL CALL OUT FROM A PLACE QUITE NEAR

42  WHEN THEY WILL HEAR A MIGHTY EXPLOSION
THAT WILL BE THE DAY OF RESURRECTION 

43  THE GIVER OF LIFE AND DEATH ARE WE 
AND TO US IS THE FINAL DESTINY

44  THE DAY WHEN THE EARTH WILL BE RENT ASUNDER 
FROM MEN HURRYING OUT GATHERING TOGETHER 

45  AND WE KNOW BEST WHAT IS SAID BY THEM
AND YOU ARE NOT ONE TO COMPEL THEM 
SO WITH THE QURAN ADMONISH THEM
THOSE WHO FEAR MY WARNING AMONG THEM

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