CHAPTER 54.  THE MOON                                                             SECTION 1.  PART XXVII

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THE HOUR OF JUDGMENT IS NEAR
AND THE MOON IS CLEFT ASUNDER

2  BUT IF THEY SEE THE SIGNS THEY TURN AWAY
THIS IS BUT TRANSIENT MAGIC, THEY SAY

3  THEY REJECT THE WARNING AND FOLLOW THEIR OWN DESIRES
BUT THERE IS AN APPOINTED TIME FOR EVERY MATTER 

4  THERE HAVE ALREADY COME TO THEM 
RECITALS ENOUGH TO CHECK THEM

5  MATURE WISDOM BUT WARNERS DO NOT PROFIT THEM

6  SO TURN AWAY FROM THEM
THE DAY THE CALLER WILL CALL THEM 
TO A TERRIBLE AFFAIR FOR THEM

7  THEY WILL COME FROM THEIR GRAVES, THEIR EYES CAST DOWN 
LIKE LOCUSTS SCATTERED AROUND

8  HASTENING TOWARDS THE CALLER
HARD IS THIS DAY, WILL SAY THE DISBELIEVERS 

9  BEFORE THEM NOAH'S PEOPLE 
REJECTED THEIR APOSTLE 

THEY REJECTED OUR SERVANT AND DID SAY
HERE IS ONE POSSESSED AND HE WAS DRIVEN AWAY

10  THEN HE CALLED ON HIS LORD AND SAID IN A PLEA
I AM ONE OVERCOME, WILL YOU THEN HELP ME?

11  SO WE OPENED THE GATES OF HEAVEN 
WITH WATER POURING THEREIN

12  WE CAUSED THE EARTH TO GUSH FORTH WATERS 
FOR A PREDETERMINED MATTER

13  BUT WE BORE HIM ON AN ARK THAT SAILED
MADE OF BROAD PLANKS AND NAILS

14  FLOATING UNDER OUR EYES 
A REWARD FOR HIM WHO WAS DENIED

15  AND WE HAVE LEFT THIS AS A LESSON
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

16  BUT HOW TERRIBLE INDEED
WAS MY WARNING AND MY PENALTY

17  AND WE HAVE MADE THE QURAN  
EASY FOR REMEMBRANCE AND COMPREHENSION
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

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CHAPTER 54.  THE MOON                                            SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXVII

18  THE AD PEOPLE WERE REJECTORS INSOLENTLY
THEN HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY WARNING AND MY PENALTY

19  FOR WE SENT AGAINST THEM A WIND FURIOUSLY 
BLOWING ON A BITTER DAY VIOLENTLY

20  PLUCKING OUT MEN EASILY
AS IF THEY WERE ROOTS OF PALM TREES 

21  HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY WARNING AND MY PENALTY

22  AND WE HAVE MADE THE QURAN 
EASY FOR REMEMBRANCE AND COMPREHENSION
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

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CHAPTER 54.  THE MOON                                                             SECTION 2.  PART XXVII

23  THE THAMUD PEOPLE WERE REJECTERS
OF THEIR COMMISSIONED WARNERS

24  FOR THEY SAID, ARE WE TO FOLLOW A MAN FROM AMONG US?
WE WOULD BE IN ERROR OR MADNESS WILL HAVE STRICKEN US

25  IS THE MESSAGE SENT TO HIM OF ALL PEOPLE AMONG US? 
NO, HE IS A LIAR AND AN INSOLENT ONE AMONG US

26  THEY WILL KNOW TOMORROW WHICH ONE
IS THE LIAR AND THE INSOLENT ONE 

27  FOR WE WILL SEND THE SHE-CAMEL AS A TRIAL FOR THEM 
SO BE PATIENT WITH THEM AND WATCH THEM

28  AND TELL THEM 
THAT THE WATER IS TO BE DIVIDED BETWEEN THEM 
EACH ONE'S RIGHT TO DRINK ARRANGED BY TURNS AMONG THEM

29  BUT THEY CALLED THEIR COMPANION AND HE INSOLENTLY
TOOK A SWORD IN HAND AND SLAUGHTERED HER MALICIOUSLY

30  HOW TERRIBLE INDEED
WAS MY WARNING AND MY PENALTY 

31  FOR WE SENT AGAINST THEM A BLAST THAT WAS TERRIBLE 
AND THEY BECAME LIKE THE DRY STUBBLE 
USED BY ONE WHO PENS CATTLE

32  AND WE HAVE MADE THE QURAN  
EASY FOR REMEMBRANCE AND COMPREHENSION 
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

33  THE PEOPLE OF LOT WERE REJECTERS
OF THEIR COMMISSIONED WARNER 

34  WE SENT A VIOLENT TORNADO AGAINST THEM
AND WITH SHOWERS OF STONES WHICH DESTROYED THEM 
EXCEPT LOT'S HOUSEHOLD, BY EARLY DAWN WE DELIVERED THEM

35  AS A GRACE FROM US SO DO WE 
REWARD THOSE WHO ACT GRATEFULLY

36  LOT WARNED THEM OF OUR PUNISHMENT COMING
BUT THEY DISPUTED ABOUT THE WARNING

37  HIS GUESTS THEY EVEN TRIED SNATCHING
BUT TO THEIR EYES WE CAUSED BLINDING
NOW TASTE MY PENALTY AND MY WARNING

38  AND A LASTING CHASTISEMENT OVERTOOK THEM IN THE MORNING

39  SO TASTE MY CHASTISEMENT AND MY WARNING

40  AND WE HAVE FOR MADE THE QURAN  
EASY FOR REMEMBRANCE AND COMPREHENSION
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

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CHAPTER 54.  THE MOON                                                             SECTION 3.  PART XXVII

41  TO PHAROAH'S PEOPLE 
CAME APOSTLES

42  ALL OUR SIGNS WE REJECTED BY THE PEOPLE
BUT WE SEIZED THEM WITH A PENALTY  THAT WAS TERRIBLE
FROM ONE EXALTED IN POWER AND ABLE 
TO CARRY OUT AND ENFORCE HIS WILL

43  ARE YOU DISBELIEVERS BETTER 
OR HAVE YOU AN IMMUNITY IN THE SACRED SCRIPTURES?

44  OR THEY SAY, WE ARE A HOST ALLIED TOGETHER 
FOR THE PURPOSE OF GIVING HELP TO EACH OTHER

45  THEY WILL BE DEFEATED AND SHOW THEIR BACKS FOR SURE

46  THEIR PROMISED TIME IS THE HOUR 
AND THE HOUR IS MOST GRIEVOUS AND BITTER

47  THE GUILTY ARE DISTRESSED AND IN ERROR

48   THEY WILL BE DRAGGED ON THEIR FACES THROUGH THE FIRE
TASTE THE TOUCH OF HELL ALL OF YOU TOGETHER

49  ALL THINGS HAVE WE CREATED PROPORTIONATELY MEASURED 

50  LIKE THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE IS OUR ORDER

51  IN THE PAST WE BROUGHT PEOPLE LIKE YOU TO DESTRUCTION
THEN IS THERE ANYONE THAT WILL RECEIVE ADMONITION?

52  ALL THEY DO IS NOTED INDEED
RECORDED IN THEIR BOOKS OF DEEDS

53  EVERY MATTER
SMALL OR GREAT IS ON RECORD

54  AS TO THE RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS
THEY WILL BE IN THE MIDST OF GARDENS AND RIVERS

55  IN AN ASSEMBLY OF TRUTH BEFORE ONE EXALTED IN POWER 

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