CHAPTER 78.  THE GREAT NEWS                                                 SECTION 1.  PART XXX 

PART XXX

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  CONCERNING WHAT ARE THEY DISPUTING?

2  CONCERNING THE GREAT NEWS COMING

3  ABOUT WHICH THEY CANNOT AGREE

4  THEY WILL SOON COME TO KNOW SURELY

5  THEY WILL SOON COME TO KNOW VERY SURELY

6  HAVE WE NOT MADE THE EARTH AS A BED?

7  AND MADE THE MOUNTAINS AS PEGS?

8  AND IN PAIRS CREATED YOU?

9  AND MADE YOUR SLEEP FOR REST FOR YOU?

10  AND MADE THE NIGHT AS A COVERING?

11  AND MADE THE DAY AS A MEANS FOR YOUR SUSTAINING?

12  AND HAVE WE NOT PLACED OVER YOU SEVEN HEAVENS?

13  AND PLACED A LIGHT OF SPLENDOR THEREIN?

14  DO WE NOT SEND DOWN FROM CLOUDS WATER IN ABUNDANCE? 

15  THAT WE MAY PRODUCE VEGETABLES FOR YOUR SUSTENANCE?

16  AND PRODUCE FOR YOU GARDENS OF LUXURIANCE?

17  THE DAY OF SORTING OUT IS A DAY APPOINTED

18  THE DAY THE TRUMPET WILL BE SOUNDED
AND YOU WILL COME FORTH IN CROWDS ROUNDED

19  THE HEAVENS AS IF THEY WERE DOORS WILL BE OPENED

20  THE MOUNTAINS WILL VANISH 
AS IF THEY WERE MIRAGES

21  AND TRULY WILL HELL 
LIE IN WAIT AS A PLACE TO DWELL

22  FOR THOSE IN TRANSGRESSION
A PLACE OF DESTINATION

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CHAPTER 78.  THE GREAT NEWS                              SECTION 1 (CONT'D).  PART XXX 

23  FOR AGES THEY WILL DWELL THEREIN

24  NOTHING COOL WILL THEY TASTE NOR ANY DRINK

25  EXCEPT A BOILING FLUID AND FLUID TOO COLD TO DRINK

26  A REQUITAL FOR THEM MOST FITTING

27  SURELY THEY FEARED NOT THE RECKONING 

28  THEY TREATED OUR SIGNS AS FALSE AND WENT ON REJECTING

29  AND WE HAVE RESERVED ON RECORD EVERYTHING

30  SO TASTE THE FRUITS OF YOUR DEEDS
NO INCREASE WILL WE GRANT YOU EXCEPT IN PENALTIES

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31  FOR THE RIGHTEOUS THERE WILL BE SUCCESS DIVINE

32  GARDENS ENCLOSED AND GRAPEVINES

33  COMPANIONS OF EQUAL AGE AND KIND

34  AND A PURE CUP OF WINE

35  NO VANITY WILL THEY HEAR OF ANY KIND

36  A GIFT FROM THE LORD OF MANKIND

37  FROM THE LORD OF EARTH AND HEAVEN AND ALL BETWEEN
GOD MOST GRACIOUS AND NONE WILL HAVE POWER TO INTERVENE 

38  THE DAY THAT THE SPIRIT AND THE ANGELIC BEINGS
WILL STAND FORTH IN RANKS AND NONE WILL BE SPEAKING

EXCEPT ANY WHO IS PERMITTED BY GOD IN HIS SIGHT
AND HE WILL ONLY SAY WHAT IS RIGHT

39  THAT IS THE TRUE DAY 
LET HIM WHO WILL TAKE A RETURN TO GOD STRAIGHTWAY

40  SURELY WE HAVE WARNED YOU OF A PENALTY
NEAR THE DAY WHEN MAN WILL SEE THE DEEDS 

WHICH HIS HANDS HAVE SENT AND THE DISBELIEVER WILL SAY 
WOE UNTO ME, I WISH I WERE MERE DUST THIS DAY

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