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IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WHEN THE EVENT COMES TO PASS

2  THERE WILL BE NO DENYING IT COMING TO PASS

3  IT WILL BRING LOW MANY
IT WILL EXALT MANY

4  WHEN THE EARTH WILL SHAKE
WITH A TERRIBLE SHAKE

5  THE MOUNTAINS WILL BE CRUMBLED TO DUST

6  AND SCATTERED AS PARTICLES OF DUST

7  AND MEN WILL BE
SORTED OUT IN CLASSES OF THREE

8  THERE WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND 
WHAT WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND?

9  AND THE COMPANIONS OF THE LEFT HAND 
WHAT WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE LEFT HAND?

10  AND THOSE FOREMOST IN FAITH WILL BE 
FOREMOST IN THE HEREAFTER SURELY

11  NEAREST TO GOD WILL THEY BE

12  IN GARDENS OF ETERNITY

13  OF PEOPLE OF OLD A GREAT NUMBER

14  AND A FEW FROM THOSE OF TIMES LATER

15  THEY WILL BE ON THRONES 
ENCRUSTED WITH GOLD AND PRECIOUS STONES

16  RECLINING ON THEM FACING EACH OTHER

17  AROUND THEM WILL BE YOUTHS WHO AGE NEVER

18  WITH BEAKERS AND GOBLETS SHINING 
AND CUPS FILLED OUT OF CLEAR FOUNTAINS FLOWING

19  THEY WILL RECEIVE NO HEADACHE AFTER
AND NO INTOXICATION WILL THEY SUFFER

20  AND WITH FRUITS ANY 
THAT THEY MAY CHOOSE FROM MANY

21  AND THE FLESH OF FOWLS ANY THAT THEY MAY DESIRE

22  AND COMPANIONS BEAUTIFUL AND PURE

23  LIKE WELL GUARDED PEARLS

24  A REWARD FOR WHAT THEY DID IN THE WORLD

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25  NO FRIVOLITY WILL THEY HEAR THEREIN
NOR ANY TAINT OF EVIL OR SIN

26  ONLY THE SAYINGS
OF PEACEFUL GREETINGS

27  THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND 
WHAT WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND?

28  THEY WILL BE 
AMONG LOTE-TREES

29  AMONG TALL TREES WITH FLOWERS 
PILED ONE ABOVE ANOTHER

30  IN SHADE EXTENDED LENGTHY

31  BY WATER FLOWING CONSTANTLY

32  AND FRUIT ABUNDANTLY

33  WHOSE SEASON 
IS NOT LIMITED NOR SUPPLY FORBIDDEN

34  AND ON THRONES OF DIGNITY 
RAISED MAJESTICALLY

35  WE HAVE CREATED THEIR COMPANIONS 
OF A SPECIAL CREATION

36  AND MADE THEM VIRGIN PURE

37  EQUAL IN AGE, BELOVED BY NATURE

38  FOR THE COMPANIONS 
OF THE RIGHT HAND

39  FROM THOSE OF OLD A GREAT NUMBER

40  AND A GOOD NUMBER FROM THOSE LATER

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41  THE COMPANIONS OF THE LEFT HAND
WHAT WILL BE THE COMPANIONS OF THE LEFT HAND?

42  THEY WILL BE IN THE MIDST OF A FIERCE BLAZE OF FIRE
AND IN THE MIDST OF BOILING WATER

43  AND IN THE SHADES OF BLACK SMOKE AND SURELY

44  NOTHING WILL THERE BE TO REFRESH OR PLEASE

45  FOR THAT THEY WERE WANTING TO BE
INDULGED BEFORE IN WEALTH AND LUXURY

46  AND PERSISTED IN SUPREME WICKEDNESS OBSTINATELY

47  AND THEY USED TO SAY, WHEN WE DIE
AND BECOME DUST AND BONES WILL WE AGAIN RISE?

48  OUR FATHERS OF OLD AND WE AFTER WE DIE?

49  SAY, YES THOSE OF OLD AND THOSE OF TIMES LATER 

50  ALL WILL CERTAINLY BE GATHERED TOGETHER 
FOR THE MEETING APPOINTED FOR A DAY WELL ASSURED

51  THEN WILL YOU WHO ACT WRONGFULLY
AND TREAT TRUTH AS FALSITY

52  YOU WILL TASTE OF THE ZAQQUM TREE

53  THEN WILL YOU FILL YOUR INSIDES WITH IT

54  AND DRINK BOILING WATER ON TOP OF IT

55  YOU WILL DRINK LIKE CAMELS THAT ARE DISEASED 
RAGING WITH THIRST AND GREED

56  THIS IS THEIR ENTERTAINMENT
ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

57  IT IS WE WHO HAVE CREATED YOU 
WHY WILL YOU NOT WITNESS THE TRUTH?

58  DO YOU SEE THE HUMAN SEED THAT IS THROWN OUT BY YOU? 

59  ARE WE THE CREATORS OF IT OR ARE YOU?

60  WE HAVE DECREED DEATH TO BE YOUR COMMON LOT
AND TO BE FRUSTRATED WE ARE NOT

61  FROM CHANGING YOUR FORMS AND CREATING YOU 
AGAIN INTO OTHER FORMS NOT KNOWN BY YOU

62  AND YOU KNOW THE FIRST FORM ALREADY
WHY DO YOU NOT THEN TAKE HEED?

63  SEE THE SEED SOWN IN THE GROUND BY YOU?

64  DO WE CAUSE IT TO GROW OR DO YOU?

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65  WERE IT OUR WILL WE COULD CRUMBLE IT TO DRY POWDER
AND THEN YOU WOULD BE LEFT IN WONDER

66  SAYING, WE ARE LEFT WITH DEBTS FOR NOTHING 

67  AND SHUT OUT OF THE FRUITS OF OUR LABORING

68  SEE THE WATER THAT IS CONSUMED BY YOU?

69  DO WE BRING IT DOWN FROM THE CLOUD OR DO YOU?

70  IF WE WILLED WE COULD MAKE IT SALTY AND UNPALATABLE 
THEN WHY DO YOU NOT GIVE THANKS AND BE GRATEFUL?

71  SEE THE FIRE THAT IS KINDLED BY YOU?

72  IS IT WE WHO GROW THE TREE THAT FEEDS THE FIRE OR YOU?

73  WE HAVE MADE IT A MEMORIAL OF OUR HANDIWORK 
AND AN ARTICLE OF COMFORT FOR THE WAYFARERS OF THE DESERT

74  THEN CELEBRATE WITH PRAISES 
THE NAME OF YOUR LORD THE GREATEST

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75  FURTHERMORE I CALL TO WITNESS THE SETTING 
OF THE STARS IN THEIR TRAVERSING

76  AND THAT IS AN ADJURATION THAT IS MIGHTY 

77  THAT THIS IS A QURAN HELD MOST HONORABLY 

78  IN A BOOK WELL GUARDED SECURELY

79  WHICH WILL BE TOUCHED BY NONE EXCEPT THE PURE ONES

80  A REVELATION FROM THE LORD OF CREATION

81  A MESSAGE THIS MIGHTY
WOULD YOU TAKE IT LIGHTLY?

82  AND HAVE YOU MADE IT YOUR LIVELIHOOD 
THAT YOU SHOULD DECLARE IT AS FALSEHOOD?

83  THEN WHY ARE YOU NOT INTERVENING 
WHEN THE DYING MAN IS DYING?

84  WHILE YOU ARE THERE LOOKING?

85  BUT WE ARE NEARER TO HIM THAN YOU
BUT THIS IS NOT SEEN BY YOU

86  WHY DO YOU NOT IF YOU ARE FREE FROM ACCOUNTABILITY

87  BRING BACK THE SOUL TO ITS BODY
IF YOU ARE ACTING TRUTHFULLY?

88  THEN IF HE BE OF THOSE NEAREST TO GOD TRULY

89  THERE IS FOR HIM REST AND PROVISION
AND A GARDEN OF SATISFACTION

90  IF HE BE OF THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND

91  PEACE BE UNTO YOU THE COMPANIONS OF THE RIGHT HAND

92  AND IF HE BE OF THOSE WHO ARE REJECTERS

93  FOR HIM IS A DRINK OF BOILING WATER

94  AND BURNING IN HELLFIRE

95  THIS IS THE TRUTH FOR SURE

96  SO CELEBRATE WITH PRAISES 
THE NAME OF YOUR LORD THE GREATEST

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