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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE WINDS THAT SCATTER 

2  AND THE CLOUDS THAT BEAR HEAVY WEIGHTS OF WATER

3  AND THE SHIPS THAT FLOAT WITH EASE IN MANNER

4  AND THOSE DISTRIBUTING THE AFFAIR

5  THAT WHICH YOU ARE PROMISED IS NOT IN ERROR

6  AND JUSTICE MUST COME TO PASS FOR SURE

7  BY THE SKY WITH ITS NUMEROUS WAYS

8  TRULY YOU ARE IN VARYING WAYS

9  THROUGH WHICH FROM THE TRUTH ARE DELUDED AWAY 
THOSE WHO WOULD BE DELUDED AWAY

10  WOE TO THE FALSEHOOD MONGERS

11  WHO ARE HEEDLESS OF THE HEREAFTER

12  AND ASK WHEN WILL THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT BE

13  IT WILL BE A DAY WHEN THEY WILL BE 
TRIED AND TESTED OVER THE FIRE AS A PENALTY

14  TASTE YOUR TRIAL, THIS IS WHAT YOU HURRIED TO SEE

15  AS TO THE RIGHTEOUS THEY WILL BE IN DWELLINGS
IN THE MIDST OF GARDENS AND SPRINGS

16  TAKING JOY IN THE THINGS WHICH THEIR LORD IS GIVING 
BECAUSE BEFORE THEN THEY LIVED A LIFE OF GOOD LIVING

17  THEY WERE IN THE HABIT OF AT NIGHT RARELY SLEEPING 

18  AND IN THE HOURS OF EARLY DAWN THEY WERE FOUND PRAYING

19  AND IN THEIR PROPERTIES THERE WAS THE RIGHT OF THE BEGGAR
AND THE POOR WHO DO NOT ASK THE OTHERS

20  ON THE EARTH ARE SIGNS FOR THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS

21  AS ALSO IN YOURSELVES WILL YOU NOT THEN CONSIDER?

22  AND IN HEAVEN IS SUSTENANCE FOR YOU
AS ALSO THAT WHICH IS PROMISED TO YOU

23  BY THE LORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH THIS IS THE VERY TRUTH 
IN AS MUCH THAT YOU CAN SPEAK TO EACH OTHER IS THE TRUTH

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24  HAS THE STORY REACHED YOU OF THE GUESTS OF ABRAHAM?

25  THEY ENTERED INTO THE PRESENCE OF ABRAHAM

26  THEY SAID PEACE TO HIM 
AND HE SAID PEACE TO THEM

AND HE SAID TO HIMSELF, THESE PEOPLE
ARE UNUSUAL AND STRANGE PEOPLE 

27  THEN HE TURNED TO HIS HOUSEHOLD QUICKLY 
AND BROUGHT A FATTED CALF FOR THEM TO EAT

28  WHEN THEY DID NOT EAT HE CONCEIVED OF THEM A FEAR 
AND THEY SAID TO HIM, OH ABRAHAM, DO NOT FEAR  

29  AND THEY GAVE HIM GOOD NEWS
OF A SON ENDOWED WITH KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH

BUT HIS WIFE CAME FORWARD LAUGHING LOUDLY
AND SHE SAID, A BARREN OLD WOMEN INDEED?

30  THEY SAID, EVEN SO HAS YOUR LORD SPOKEN
AND HE IS FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM 

PART XXVII 

31 ABRAHAM SAID, AND WHAT NOW
OH YOU MESSENGERS, IS YOUR ERRAND NOW?

32  THEY SAID, WE HAVE BEEN
SENT TO A PEOPLE DEEP IN SIN

33  TO BRING ON THEM A SHOWER OF STONES
OF CLAY BRIMSTONE

34  MARKED FROM YOUR LORD FOR THESE
WHO HAVE TRESPASSED BEYOND BOUNDARIES

35  THEN WE EVACUATED FROM THERE SAFELY
THEY WHO WERE OF THOSE WHO DID BELIEVE

36  BUT WE FOUND ONE RIGHTEOUS HOUSEHOLD ONLY

37  AND WE LEFT A SIGN FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THE PENALTY 

38  MOSES WAS SIGN, WE SENT HIM TO PHARAOH WITH AUTHORITY 

39  BUT PHARAOH TURNED BACK WITH HIS CHIEFS
AND SAID, THIS IS ONE POSSESSED WITH SORCERY

40  SO WE THREW HIM AND HIS FORCES INTO THE SEA 
AND HIS WAS THE BLAME MOST ASSUREDLY

41  AND TO THE AD PEOPLE WE DID SEND
AGAINST THEM A DEVASTATING WIND

42  IT LEFT NOTHING WHATEVER
BUT REDUCED IT TO RUINED MATTER

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43  AND IN THE THAMUD WAS ANOTHER SIGN
THEY WERE TOLD, ENJOY YOUR BRIEF DAY FOR A SHORT TIME

44  BUT THEY DEFIED GOD'S ORDERING
SO THE  STUNNING EARTHQUAKE'S SEIZING
OVERTOOK THEM WHILE THEY WERE LOOKING 

45  THEN THEY WERE UNABLE TO RISE UP
NOR COULD THEY HELP THEMSELVES UP

46  SO WERE THE PEOPLE OF NOAH PREVIOUSLY
FOR THEY TRANSGRESSED WICKEDLY

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47  WITH POWER AND SKILL DID WE CONSTRUCT THE FIRMAMENT
FOR IT IS WE WHO CREATED THE VAST EXTENT

48  AND THE EARTH WE HAVE SPREAD IT OUT 
AND HOW EXCELLENT HAVE WE SPREAD IT OUT

49  WE MADE EVERY THING IN PAIRS IN CREATION
SO THAT YOU MAY RECEIVE INSTRUCTION

50  HASTEN THEN AT ONCE TO YOUR MAKER
I AM A WARNER FROM HIM TO YOU OPEN AND CLEAR

51  AND MAKE NOT ANOTHER 
AN OBJECT OF WORSHIP WITH THE CREATOR 
FOR I AM A WARNER TO YOU OPEN AND CLEAR 

52  NEVER BEFORE CAME TO PEOPLE A MESSENGER
BUT THEY SAID OF HIM IN LIKE MANNER 
ONE POSSESSED OR A SORCERER

53  IS THIS THE LEGACY THEY HAVE TRANSMITTED ONE TO ANOTHER?
NO, THEY ARE THEMSELVES PEOPLE WHO ARE TRANSGRESSORS

54  SO TURN AWAY FROM THEM 
FOR YOU ARE NOT THE BLAME FOR THEM

55  BUT REMIND THEM FOR THE MESSAGE OF THE REMINDER
IS BENEFICIAL TO THE BELIEVERS

56  I HAVE CREATED DEMONS AND MEN ONLY 
THAT THEY MAY SERVE ME ONLY

57  NO SUSTENANCE DO I REQUIRE OF THEM FOR ME 
NOR DO I REQUIRE THAT THEY SHOULD FEED ME

58  FOR GOD IS THE SUSTAINER
LORD OF POWER AND STEADFAST FOR EVER

59  FOR THE WRONG DOERS THEIR PORTION 
IS SIMILAR TO THE PORTION 
OF THE PEOPLE OF EARLIER GENERATIONS 
LET THEM NOT ASK ME TO HASTEN THAT PORTION

60  THEN WOE TO THE DISBELIEVERS
ON ACCOUNT OF WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN ASSURED

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