CHAPTER 74.  ONE WRAPPED UP                                               SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH YOU WRAPPED UP IN WRAPPINGS

2  ARISE AND DELIVER YOUR WARNINGS

3  AND YOUR LORD MAGNIFY

4  AND YOUR GARMENTS PURIFY

5  AND FROM ALL ABOMINATIONS KEEP SHY

6  NOR ENGAGE IN GIVING
FOR THE PURPOSE OF GAINING

7  BUT FOR GOD'S CAUSE BE CONSTANT AND BEAR PATIENTLY

8  WHEN THE TRUMPET IS SOUNDED FINALLY

9  A DAY OF DISTRESS THAT WILL BE

10  FOR THOSE WITHOUT FAITH FAR FROM EASY

11  LEAVE ME TO DEAL ALONE
WITH THE CREATURE WHOM I CREATED BARE AND ALONE

12  TO WHOM I GRANTED RESOURCES IN ABUNDANCE

13  AND SONS DWELLING IN HIS PRESENCE

14  TO WHOM I MADE LIFE SMOOTH AND COMFORTABLE FOR HIM

15  AFTER ALL THAT HE DESIRES THAT I SHOULD GIVE MORE TO HIM

16  BY NO MEANS FOR TO OUR SIGNS HE HAS BEEN REFRACTORY

17  SOON WILL I VISIT HIM WITH A MOUNTAIN OF CALAMITIES

18  FOR HE THOUGHT AND HE PLOTTED 

19  AND WOE TO HIM HOW HE PLOTTED

20 YES, WOE TO HIM HOW HE PLOTTED

21  THEN HE LOOKED AROUND

22  THEN HE SCOWLED AND FROWNED

23  THEN HE TURNED BACK AND WAS HAUGHTY

24  HE SAID, THIS IS NOTHING BUT MAGIC DERIVED PREVIOUSLY

25  THIS IS NOTHING BUT THE WORD OF A MORTAL 

26  SOON WILL I CAST HIM INTO THE FIRE OF HELL

27  AND WHAT WILL MAKE YOU KNOW WHAT IS THE FIRE OF HELL?

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CHAPTER 74.  ONE WRAPPED UP                              SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXIX 

28  NOTHING DOES IT PERMIT TO ENDURE 
AND NOTHING DOES IT LEAVE OF ANY SINNER

29  IT SCORCHES THE MORTAL

30  OVER IT ARE NINETEEN ANGELS

31  AND WE HAVE SET ANGELS AS GUARDIANS OF THE FIRE
WE HAVE FIXED THEIR NUMBER AS A TRIAL FOR DISBELIEVERS 
IN ORDER TO GIVE CERTAINTY TO THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES 
AND ALSO THAT BELIEVERS MAY INCREASE IN BELIEF AS BELIEVERS
THAT NO DOUBTS MAY BE LEFT FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE SCRIPTURES 
AND THOSE WHO ARE BELIEVERS  
AND THOSE WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS 
AND THOSE IN WHOSE HEARTS IS A DISORDER  
SAY, WHAT IS MEANT BY THIS PARABLE BY THE CREATOR
BUT GOD LEAVES WHOM HE PLEASES IN ERROR
 
AND GUIDES WHOM HE PLEASES 
AND NONE CAN KNOW THE FORCES 
OF YOUR LORD EXCEPT AS HE PLEASES
AND THIS IS TO MAN ONE OF HIS MESSAGES

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CHAPTER 74.  ONE WRAPPED UP                                                SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

32  NAY, BY THE MOON SURELY

33  AND BY THE NIGHT WHEN IT RETREATS

34  AND BY THE DAWN WHEN IT BRIGHTENS

35  THIS IS BUT ONE OF THE MIGHTY PORTENTS

36  A WARNING TO MANKIND

37  TO ANY OF YOU THAT GOES FORWARD OR REMAINS BEHIND

38  EVERY SOUL WILL BE
HELD IN PLEDGE FOR ITS DEEDS

39  EXCEPT THE RIGHT HAND COMPANIONS

40  IN GARDENS EACH OTHER THEY WILL QUESTION

41  AND ASK OF THE SINNERS

42  WHAT LED YOU INTO HELL FIRE?

43  THEY WILL SAY
WE WERE NOT OF THOSE WHO PRAYED

44  NOR DID WE FEED 
THOSE WHO WERE IN NEED

45  BUT WE USED TO TALK WITH VAIN TALKERS VANITIES

46  AND WE DENIED THE DAY OF RESSURECTION

47  UNTIL THERE CAME TO US THE HOUR THAT IS CERTAIN

48  THEN WILL NO INTERCESSION OF ANY INTERCESSORS PROFIT THEM

49  THEN WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THEM
THAT THEY TURN WHEN ADMONITION COMES TO THEM?

50  LIKE A FRIGHTENED ASS

51  FLEEING FROM A LIONS GRASP?

52  THEY WANT TO THEM TO BE GIVEN 
SCROLLS OF SPREAD OUT REVELATION

53  BY NO MEANS, BUT THEY FEAR NOT THE RESURRECTION

54  NAY, THIS SURELY IS AN ADMONITION

55  LET IT BE KEPT IN REMEMBRANCE BY EVERYONE

56  EXCEPT AS GOD WILLS IT WILL BE KEPT BY NONE 
AND HE IS THE LORD OF ALL CREATION

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