CHAPTER 79.  THOSE WHO TEAR OUT                                      SECTION 1.  PART XXX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE ANGELS WHO TEAR OUT THE SOULS OF THE WICKED HARSHLY

2  BY THOSE WHO DRAW OUT THE SOULS OF THE BLESSED GENTLY

3  AND BY THOSE WHO GLIDE ALONG ON ERRANDS OF MERCY

4  THEN AS IN A RACE PRESS FORWARD 

5  THEN ARRANGE TO DO THE COMMANDS OF THEIR LORD

6  ONE DAY EVERYTHING THAT CAN BE IN COMMOTION
WILL BE IN VIOLENT COMMOTION

7  FOLLOWED BY OFTEN REPEATED COMMOTIONS

8  HEARTS THAT DAY WILL BE IN AGITATION

9  CAST DOWN WILL BE THE EYES OF THEIR OWNERS 

10  THEY SAY, WILL WE BE RETURNED TO WHAT WE WERE FORMER?

11  WHEN WE WILL HAVE BECOME ROTTEN BONES AND FURTHER?

12  THEY SAY, IT WOULD IN THAT CASE BE
A RETURN WITH LOSS CERTAINLY

13  BUT JUST A SINGLE CRY WILL IT BE

14  WHEN IN THE FULL AWAKENING OF THE RECKONING THEY WILL BE

15  HAS NOT REACHED TO YOU MOSES'S STORY?

16  WHEN HIS LORD CALLED HIM IN THE SACRED VALLEY?

17  GO TO PHARAOH FOR HE SURELY 
HAS TRANSGRESSED ALL BOUNDARIES

18  AND SAY TO HIM, WOULD YOU BE 
PURIFIED FROM INIQUITY?

19  AND THAT I GUIDE YOU TO YOUR LORD, SO FEAR HIM WITH HEED

20  SO MOSES SHOWED HIM A SIGN MIRACULOUS AND MIGHTY

21  BUT HE REJECTED IT AND WAS HAUGHTY

22  FURTHER HE TURNED HIS BACK STRIVING ARROGANTLY

23  SO HE GATHERED HIS PEOPLE AND PROCLAIMED PUBLICLY

24  SAYING, I AM YOUR LORD MOST HIGH, FULL OF GLORY

25  BUT GOD IN THIS LIFE DID PUNISH HIM
AND IN THE HEREAFTER AND MADE AN EXAMPLE OF HIM

26  SURELY IN THIS IS AN INSTRUCTIVE WARNING
FOR WHOEVER IS GOD-FEARING

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CHAPTER 79.  THOSE WHO TEAR OUT                                      SECTION 2.  PART XXX 

27  ARE YOU THE MORE DIFFICULT IN CREATION
OR THE HEAVEN ABOVE WHICH IS GOD'S CREATION? 

28  ON HIGH HAS HE RAISED THE CANOPY
AND HAS GIVEN IT ORDER PERFECTLY

29  HE ENDOWS WITH DARKNESS THE NIGHT
AND ITS SPLENDOR HE BRINGS OUT WITH LIGHT

30  AND THE EARTH HAS HE EXTENDED MOREOVER

31  HE DRAWS OUT FROM IT, ITS MOISTURE AND PASTURE

32  HE HAS FIXED FIRMLY FOR YOU THE MOUNTAINS

33  AND YOUR CATTLE TO BE PROVISIONS

34  SO WHEN COMES THE GREAT EVENT OVERWHELMING

35  THE DAY WHEN MAN WILL REMEMBER ALL OF HIS STRIVING

36  AND PLACED IN FULL VIEW WILL BE THE HELL-FIRE 

37  THEN FOR THOSE WHO HAD BEEN TRANSGRESSORS

38  AND THE LIFE OF THIS WORLD THEY HAD PREFERRED

39  THEIR ABODE WILL BE THE HELL-FIRE

40  AND FOR THOSE WHO HAD ENTERTAINED THE FEAR OF STANDING  
BEFORE THEIR LORD AND HAD RESTRAINED THEIR YEARNINGS

41  THEY WILL BE IN GARDENS ABIDING

42  THEY ASK YOU ABOUT THE HOUR, WHEN WILL BE ITS APPOINTING?

43  ABOUT IT YOU HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE TO SAY ANYTHING

44  WITH YOUR LORD IS THE LIMIT'S FIXING

45  YOU ARE BUT A WARNER FOR THE GOD-FEARING

46  THE DAY THEY SEE IT WILL BE AS IF THEIR STAYING
HAD BEEN BUT A SINGLE EVENING OR MORNING

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