CHAPTER 67.  THE DOMINION                                                     SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

PART  XXIX

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  IN WHOSE HANDS IS THE DOMINION, BLESSED IS HE
AND ALL POWER OVER ALL THINGS HAS HE

2  HE WHO CREATED LIFE AND DEATH 
SO HE MAY TRY WHICH OF YOU IS BEST
AND HE IS THE FORGIVING, THE GREATEST

3  HE WHO IS THE CREATOR OF THE SEVEN HEAVENS
ONE ABOVE THE OTHER AND NO WANT OF PROPORTION 
WILL YOU SEE IN YOUR LORD AND CHERISHER'S CREATION 
SO THEN TURN YOUR VISION, DO YOU SEE ANY IMPERFECTION?

4  AGAIN TURN YOUR VISION 
A SECOND TIME AND YOUR VISION 
WILL COME BACK TO YOU IN EXHAUSTION
AND IN A STATE OF HUMILIATION

5  AND WE HAVE WITH LAMPS ADORNED THE LOWEST HEAVEN 
WE HAVE MADE SUCH LAMPS AS MISSILES TO DRIVE AWAY DEMONS 
AND WE HAVE PREPARED FOR THEM THE FIRE FOR THEIR PENALIZATION

6  FOR THOSE WHO REJECT THEIR LORD IS THE PENALTY OF HELL 
AND IT IS AN EVIL PLACE TO DWELL

7  WHEN THEY ARE CAST INTO IT ON THEIR FACES
THEY WILL HEAR THE MOANING OF IT AS IT BLAZES 

8  ALMOST BURSTING WITH FURY AND EVERY TIME A NEW CREW
IS CAST INTO IT ITS KEEPERS ASK, DID NO WARNER COME TO YOU?

9  THEY WILL SAY, YES INDEED 
A WARNER DID COME TO US BUT WE DID NOT TAKE HEED
AND SAID TO HIM, GOD NEVER SENT DOWN A MESSAGE TO ANY 
YOU ARE IN  NOTHING BUT A FANTASY

10  THEY WILL FURTHER SAY, HAD WE BUT LISTENED
OR IF WE HAD ONLY USED OUR DISCRETION
WE WOULD NOT BE AMONG THE FIRE'S COMPANIONS 

11  THEY WILL CONFESS THEIR SINS BUT FORGIVENESS FOR SURE
WILL BE FAR FROM THE COMPANIONS OF THE BLAZING FIRE 

12  AS FOR THOSE WHO FEAR THEIR LORD 
FOR THEM IS FORGIVENESS AND A GREAT REWARD

13  AND WHETHER YOU HIDE YOUR WORD OR PUBLISH IT 
WHAT IS IN THE HEARTS HE HAS FULL KNOWLEDGE OF IT

14  SHOULD HE NOT KNOW, HE THAT CREATED ALL THAT YOU SEE  
AND HE IS THE ONE THAT UNDERSTANDS THE FINEST MYSTERIES 
AND WELL ACQUAINTED WITH THEM IS HE?

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CHAPTER 67.  THE DOMINION                                                     SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

15  IT IS HE WHO HAS MADE THE EARTH YOUR HABITATION 
SO TRAVERSE THROUGH ITS DOMINION 
AND ENJOY WHAT HE FURNISHES OF PROVISIONS
BUT TO HIM IS THE RESURRECTION

16  DO YOU FEEL SECURE THAT HE WHO IS IN HEAVEN 
THAT HE WILL NOT CAUSE YOU TO EXPEND 
WHEN THE EARTH AS IN AN EARTHQUAKE IS SHAKEN?

17  OR DO YOU FEEL SECURE THAT HE WHO IS IN HEAVEN 
WILL NOT SEND AGAINST YOU A VIOLENT WIND
SO THAT YOU WILL KNOW HOW SERIOUS WAS MY ADMONITION?

18  BUT MEN REJECTED MY WARNINGS BEFORE THEM
THEN HOW TERRIBLE WAS MY REJECTION OF THEM

19  DO THEY NOT OBSERVE THE BIRDS ABOVE THEM 
SPREADING THEIR WINGS AND FOLDING THEM? 
NONE EXCEPT GOD CAN UPHOLD THEM 
AND OF ALL THINGS HE IS THE WATCHER OVER THEM

20  WHO CAN HELP YOU EVEN AS AN ARMY 
BESIDES YOUR LORD WHO IS FULL OF MERCY? 
THE DISBELIEVERS ARE IN NOTHING BUT FANTASY

21  OR WHO CAN PROVIDE YOU WITH PROVISION
IF HE WERE TO WITHHOLD FROM YOU HIS PROVISION? 
NO, THEY PERSIST IN FLIGHT FROM TRUTH AND REASON
OBSTINATELY WITH INSOLENT REJECTION  

22  IS THEN ONE WHO WALKS WITH OUT SEEING GUIDED MORE RIGHT
THAN ONE WHO WALKS ON A STRAIGHT WAY WITH CLEAR SIGHT?

23  SAY, IT IS HE WHO CREATED YOU AND CAUSED YOUR MATURING 
AND HAS MADE FOR YOU THE FACULTIES OF HEARING
AND SEEING AND FEELING AND UNDERSTANDING 
LITTLE THANKS IT IS THAT YOU ARE GIVING

24  SAY, IT IS HE WHO HAS MULTIPLIED YOU 
THROUGH THE EARTH AND HE WILL GATHER YOU

25  THEY ASK, WHEN WILL THIS PROMISE COME TRUE
IF WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS TRUE

26  SAY, AS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TIME IT IS WITH GOD ONLY 
AND I AM SENT ONLY TO WARN PLAINLY AND PUBLICLY

27   AT LENGTH WHEN THEY SEE IT COME NEAR
GRIEVED WILL BE THE FACES OF THE DISBELIEVERS
AND IT WILL BE SAID TO THEM, YOUR TERM IS OVER
AND THIS IS WHAT YOU WERE CALLING FOR SO EAGER

28  SAY, SEE IF GOD WERE TO DESTROY ME 
AND THOSE WITH ME OR IF HE BESTOWS ON US HIS MERCY 
THEN WHO CAN DELIVER THE DISBELIEVERS FROM THE PENALTY?

29  SAY, HE IS GOD MOST GRACIOUS AND WE ARE BELIEVERS 
WE TRUST IN HIM AND SOON WILL YOU KNOW CLEARER
WHICH OF US IT IS THAT IS IN MANIFEST ERROR 

30  SAY, SEE IF YOUR STREAM BE LOST SOME MORNING 
WHO THEN CAN SUPPLY YOU WITH CLEAR WATER FLOWING? 

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CHAPTER 68.  THE PEN                                                                    SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE INKSTAND AND THE PEN AND BY THE RECORD
BY WHICH MEN WRITE AND RECORD

2  YOU ARE NOT MAD BY THE GRACE OF YOUR LORD

3  SURELY FOR YOU IS AN UNFAILING REWARD

4  YOU STAND ON AN EXALTED STANDARD OF CHARACTER INDEED

5  SOON WILL YOU SEE AND THEY WILL SEE

6  WHICH OF YOU ARE AFFLICTED WITH MADNESS INDEED

7  SURELY IT IS YOUR LORD THAT KNOWS BEST 
WHICH MEN HAVE STRAYED AND HE KNOWS BEST 
THOSE WHO RECEIVE GUIDANCE THE BEST

8  SO DO NOT LISTEN 
TO THOSE IN REJECTION

9  THEIR DESIRE IS THAT YOU SHOULD BE PLIANT 
SO THAT THEY WOULD BE PLIANT

10  AND OBEY NOT ANY MEAN SWEARER 

11  A DEFAMER GOING ABOUT WITH SLANDER 

12  A HINDERER OF GOOD, A TRANSGRESSOR

13  VIOLENT AND CRUEL BESIDES THAT A MISCHIEF MAKER

14  BECAUSE OF WEALTH AND SONS HE IS A POSSESSOR

15  WHEN TO HIM ARE OUR MESSAGES TOLD
HE SAYS, TALES OF THE ANCIENTS OF OLD

16  SOON WILL WE SURELY
BRAND HIM ON THE SNOUT SEVERELY

17  WE HAVE TRIED THEM AS WE TRIED THE PEOPLE OF THE GARDEN 
WHEN THEY RESOLVED TO GATHER THE FRUITS OF THE GARDEN

18  BUT THEY MADE NO RESERVATION

19  THEN THERE CAME FROM GOD WHILE THEY SLEPT A VISITATION

20  SO BY THE MORNING THE GARDEN 
BECAME DARK AND BARREN

21  AS THE MORNING BROKE THEY CALLED OUT ONE TO ANOTHER

22  GO TO YOUR HARVEST AND GATHER YOUR FRUITS TOGETHER

23  SO THEY DEPARTED CONVERSING 
IN SECRET LOW TONES SAYING

24  LET NOT A SINGLE INDIGENT PERSON 
BREAK IN UPON YOU THIS DAY INTO THE GARDEN

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CHAPTER 68.  THE PEN                                                  SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXIX 

25  THEY OPENED THE MORNING STRONG IN AN UNJUST WAY

26  WHEN THEY SAW THE GARDEN THEY SAID,WE HAVE LOST OUR WAY

27  AND INDEED WE ARE SHUT OUT AND AWAY

28  ONE OF THEM MORE JUST SAID, GLORIFY GOD REPENTFULLY

29  THEY SAID, GLORY TO OUR LORD WE HAVE ACTED WRONGFULLY

30  THEN THEY TURNED AGAINST ONE ANOTHER BLAMEFULLY

31  THEY SAID, WOE TO US WE HAVE BEEN TRANSGRESSORS 
SURELY IT MAY BE THAT OUR LORD AND CHERISHER

32  WILL GIVE US A GARDEN THAT IS BETTER
FOR WE DO TURN TO HIM AND WE ARE SINCERE

33  THIS IS THEIR PUNISHMENT IN THIS LIFE, BUT GREATER 
IF ONLY THEY KNEW, IS THE PUNISHMENT IN THE HEREAFTER

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CHAPTER 68.  THE PEN                                                                    SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

34  SURELY FOR THE RIGHTEOUS ARE GARDENS
OF DELIGHT IN GOD'S PRESENCE 

35  WILL WE THEN TREAT THE FAITHFUL PEOPLE
THE SAME WAY AS WE TREAT THE SINFUL PEOPLE? 

36  HOW DO YOU JUDGE, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU

37  OR HAVE YOU A BOOK WHICH YOU LEARN THROUGH

38  THAT YOU WILL HAVE THROUGH IT WHATEVER YOU CHOOSE?

39  OR HAVE YOU COVENANTS WITH US ON OATHS REACHING 
TO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT PROVING 
THAT YOU WILL HAVE WHATEVER OF YOUR CHOOSING?

40  ASK THEM WHICH OF THEM FOR THAT WILL BE VOUCHING

41  OR HAVE THEY SOME PARTNERS 
THEN LET THEM IF THEY ARE TRUTHFUL PRODUCE THEIR PARTNERS

42  THE DAY THAT THEY WILL BE LAID OPEN
AND THEY WILL BE SUMMONED TO BOW IN ADORATION
BUT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BE IN SUBMISSION

43  THEIR EYES WILL BE CAST DOWN AND THEY WILL BE IN HUMILIATION 
FOR THEY HAD BEEN SUMMONED IN ADORATION
WHILE THEY WERE IN A SAFE SITUATION

44  THOSE WHO REJECT THIS MESSAGE, LEAVE ME ALONE WITH THEM  
AND WE WILL BY DEGREES PUNISH THEM 
FROM DIRECTIONS NOT PERCEIVED BY THEM

45  A RESPITE WILL I GRANT THEM FOR A PERIOD PROLONGED
FOR SURELY MY PLAN IS STABLE AND STRONG

46  OR IS IT THAT YOU ASK THEM FOR WAGES
SO THAT THEY ARE BURDENED WITH INDEBTEDNESS?

47  OR IS IT THAT THE UNSEEN IS IN THEIR HANDS 
SO THAT THEY CAN WRITE IT WITH THEIR HANDS? 
 
48  WAIT WITH PATIENCE FOR THE COMMAND OF YOUR CREATOR
AND BE NOT LIKE THE FISH'S COMPANION WHEN HE CRIED IN TERROR

49  AND HAD HE NOT RECEIVED HIS LORD'S MIGHTY GRACE  
HE WOULD HAVE BEEN CAST OFF ON THE NAKED SHORE IN DISGRACE 

50  SO DID HIS LORD CHOOSE HIM GRACIOUSLY
AND MADE HIM OF THE COMPANY OF THOSE WHO ACT RIGHTEOUSLY

51  AND THEY WOULD BATTER YOU, WHO ARE DISBELIEVERS 
WITH THEIR EYES WHEN THEY HEAR THE REMINDER
AND THEY SAY, HE IS A POSSESSED SORCERER

52  BUT THIS IS FOR ALL THE NATIONS A REMINDER

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CHAPTER 69.  THE SURE REALITY                                              SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THE SURE REALITY 

2  WHAT IS THE SURE REALITY?

3  AND WHAT WILL MAKE YOU REALIZE WHAT IS THE SURE REALITY?

4  THE THAMUD AND THE AD PEOPLE BRANDED AS A FALSITY
THE TERRIBLE STUNNING CALAMITY

5  BUT THE THAMUD, THEY WERE DESTROYED BY 
A GRIEVOUS AWFUL CRY

6  AND THE AD, THEY WERE DESTROYED IN THE END
BY A FURIOUS VIOLENT WIND

7  GOD MADE IT FOR SEVEN NIGHTS AND EIGHT DAYS TO COME DOWN
SO THAT YOU COULD SEE THEM IN ITS PATH LYING DOWN
AS IF THEY HAD BEEN ROOTS OF PALM TREES TUMBLED DOWN

8  CAN YOU SEE ANY OF THEIR SURVIVORS STILL AROUND?

9  PHARAOH AND THOSE BEFORE HIM PREVIOUSLY
AND THE OVERTHROWN CITIES COMMITTED SIN HABITUALLY

1O  AND DISOBEYED GOD'S APOSTLE
SO HE PUNISHED THEM WITH A PENALTY THAT WAS TERRIBLE

11  WHEN THE WATER OF NOAH'S FLOOD OVERFLOWED ITS LIMITS
WE CARRIED YOU IN THE FLOATING SHIP

12  THAT WE MIGHT MAKE IT FOR YOU A REMINDER
AND THAT THE RETAINING EAR MIGHT HEAR AND REMEMBER

13  WHEN THE TRUMPET BLASTS
WITH A SINGLE BLAST

14  AND THE MOUNTAINS OF THE EARTH 
IN ONE STROKE ARE CRUSHED TO POWDER 

15  THE GREAT EVENT WILL OCCUR

16  AND THE SKY WILL BE RENT ASUNDER 
FOR IT WILL THAT DAY BE TENDER

17  THE ANGELS WILL BE ON ITS SIDES AND EIGHT WILL BEAR 
THAT DAY YOUR LORD'S THRONE OF POWER

18  THAT DAY WILL YOU BE BROUGHT TO JUDGMENT 
NOT AN ACT OF YOURS THAT YOU HIDE WILL BE HIDDEN

19  THEN HE THAT WILL BE GIVEN HIS RECORD 
IN HIS RIGHT HAND WILL SAY, HERE READ MY RECORD

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CHAPTER 69.  THE SURE REALITY                             SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXIX 

20  I DID REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT SURELY 
MY ACCOUNT WOULD ONE DAY REACH ME

21  AND IN A GARDEN OF BLISS WILL HE BE

22  IN A GARDEN OF ETERNITY

23  THE FRUITS OF IT WILL HANG WITHIN REACH EASILY

24  EAT AND DRINK WITH EASE 
BECAUSE OF THE GOOD THAT YOU DID PREVIOUSLY

25  AND HE THAT WILL BE
GIVEN HIS RECORD IN HIS LEFT HAND WILL PLEA  
SAYING, I WISH MY RECORD HAD NOT BEEN GIVEN TO ME

26  AND THAT I HAD NEVER REALIZED HOW MY ACCOUNT WOULD BE

27  OR WOULD THAT DEATH HAD MADE AN END OF ME

28  OF NO PROFIT HAS BEEN MY WEALTH TO ME

29  AND MY POWER HAS PERISHED FROM ME

30  THE STERN COMMAND WILL SAY, SEIZE HIM AND BIND HIM

31  AND INTO THE BLAZING FIRE BURN HIM

32  FURTHER MAKE HIM MARCH IN A CHAIN, THE LENGTH OF IT 
IS THE LENGTH OF SEVENTY CUBITS

33  THIS WAS HE THAT WOULD NOT BELIEVE 
IN GOD THE ALL MIGHTY

34  AND WOULD NOT ENCOURAGE TO FEED
THOSE WHO WERE IN NEED

35  SO NO FRIEND HERE THIS DAY HAS HE 

36  NOR FOR FOOD EXCEPT REFUGE HAS HE 

37  WHICH NONE DO EAT BUT THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY

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CHAPTER 69.  THE SURE REALITY                                               SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

38  SO I DO CALL TO WITNESS WHAT YOU SEE

39  AND WHAT YOU DO NOT SEE

40  THAT THIS IS THE WORD OF AN HONORED APOSTLE INDEED

41  IT IS NOT THE WORD OF A POET, BUT LITTLE DO YOU BELIEVE

42  NOR THE WORD OF A SOOTHSAYER, NO WARNING DO YOU HEED

43  THIS IS A MESSAGE SENT FROM THE LORD OF THE WORLDS SURELY 

44  IF THE APOSTLE WERE TO INVENT IN OUR NAME ANY FALSITY 

45  WE WOULD HAVE SEIZED HIM BY THE RIGHT HAND FIRMLY

46  AND WE WOULD CUT OFF HIS HEART'S ARTERY

47  NOR COULD ANY OF YOU WITHHOLD FROM HIM OUR PENALTY

48  BUT THIS IS A MESSAGE FOR THE BELIEVERS

49  AND WE KNOW THAT SOME OF YOU ARE REJECTERS 

50  BUT REVELATION IS A CAUSE OF GRIEF FOR DISBELIEVERS 

51  BUT IT IS TRUTH OF ASSURED CERTAINTY

52  SO GLORIFY THE NAME OF YOUR LORD, FULL OF MAJESTY

      

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CHAPTER 70.  THE WAYS OF ASCENT                                       SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  A QUESTION WAS ASKED ABOUT A PENALTY BY A QUESTIONER

2  THE WHICH THERE IS NONE TO AVERT FROM THE DISBELIEVERS

3  A PUNISHMENT
FROM THE LORD OF THE WAYS OF ASCENT

4  THE ANGELS ASCEND TO HIM IN A DAY THE MEASURE  
OF WHICH IS AS FIFTY THOUSAND YEARS 

5  THEREFORE BE PATIENT WITH CONTENTMENT

6  THEY SEE THE DAY AS A FAR OFF EVENT

7  BUT WE SEE IT AS A QUITE NEAR EVENT

8  THE DAY THAT LIKE MOLTEN BRASS THE SKY WILL BE 

9  AND LIKE WOOL THE MOUNTAINS WILL BE 

10  AND NO FRIEND
WILL ASK AFTER A FRIEND

11  THOUGH THEY WILL BE PUT IN SIGHT OF EACH OTHER
TO SACRIFICE HIS CHILDREN WOULD BE THE SINNER'S DESIRE 
IF IT WOULD REDEEM HIM FROM THE FIRE

12  HIS WIFE AND HIS BROTHER

13  HIS KINDRED WHO HAVE HIM SHELTER

14  AND ALL THAT IS ON EARTH SO THAT HIM IT COULD DELIVER

15  BY NO MEANS FOR IT WOULD BE HELL FIRE

16  RIGHT TO THE SKULL AND PLUCKING
OUT HIS VERY BEING

17  INVITING ALL THOSE WHO TURN THEIR BACKS IN FLIGHT
AND TURN AWAY THEIR FACES AWAY FROM RIGHT

18  AND COLLECT WEALTH AND HIDE IT FROM USE FOR RIGHT

19  TRULY MAN WAS CREATED VERY IMPATIENT

20  FRETFUL WHEN TOUCHED WITH TORMENT

21  AND MISERLY WHEN TOUCHED BY GOOD, UNWILLING TO SHARE

22  NOT SO THOSE DEVOTED TO PRAYER

23  WHO ARE CONSTANT IN THEIR PRAYER

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24  AND THOSE IN WHOSE WEALTH IS A RECOGNIZED RIGHT 

25  FOR THE BEGGAR AND THE DESTITUTE ALIKE

26  AND THOSE WHO TO THE DAY OF JUDGMENT HOLD TO RIGHT

27  AND THOSE WHO FEAR THEIR LORD'S DISLIKE

28  FOR THEIR LORD'S DISLIKE IS SURELY
THE OPPOSITE OF PEACE AND TRANQUILLITY

29  AND THOSE WHO GUARD THEIR CHASTITY

30  EXCEPT WITH THEIR WIVES AND WHOM THEIR RIGHT HANDS POSSESS 
FOR THEN IN THAT CASE THEY ARE BLAMELESS

31  BUT THOSE WHO ARE TRESPASSERS
BEYOND THIS ARE TRANSGRESSORS

32  AND THOSE WHO RESPECT THEIR TRUSTS AND COVENANTS

33  AND THOSE WHO STAND FIRM ON THEIR TESTAMENTS

34  AND THOSE WHO GUARD THE SACREDNESS OF THEIR WORSHIPS

35  THEY WILL BE THE HONORED ONES IN THE GARDEN OF BLISS

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CHAPTER 70.  THE WAYS OF ASCENT                                       SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

36  WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THE DISBELIEVERS AMONG YOU
THAT THEY RUSH MADLY BEFORE YOU?

37  FROM THE RIGHT AND FROM THE LEFT OF YOU?

38  DOES EVERY MAN AMONG THEM LONG TO ENTER 
THE GARDEN OF BLISS WHEREIN FLOW RIVERS?

39  BY NO MEANS, FOR WE HAVE CREATED THEM 
OUT OF THE BASE MATTER KNOWN TO THEM

40  NOW I CALL TO WITNESS THE LORD OF THE EASTERN LANDS
AND THE LORD AND SUSTAINER OF THE WESTERN LANDS
THAT WE CAN CERTAINLY IN OUR PLANS

41  SUBSTITUTE FOR THEM BETTER MEN  
WE ARE NOT TO BE DEFEATED OUR PLAN

42  SO LEAVE THEM TO PLUNGE IN VAIN TALK AND PLAY 
UNTIL THEY ENCOUNTER THAT PROMISED DAY 

43  WHEN THEY WILL ISSUE FROM THEIR GRAVES ALL OF A SUDDEN  
AS IF THEY WERE RUSHING TO A FIXED DESTINATION

44  THEIR EYES LOWERED IN DEJECTION, IGNOMINY COVERING THEM 
THIS IS THE DAY WHICH IS PROMISED TO THEM

 

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 CHAPTER 71.  NOAH                                                                       SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  WE SENT NOAH TO HIS PEOPLE 
WITH THE COMMAND, WARN YOUR PEOPLE 
BEFORE THEY RECEIVE A PENALTY THAT WILL BE TERRIBLE

2  HE SAID, OH MY PEOPLE 
I AM TO YOU AN APOSTLE 

3  THAT YOU SHOULD OBEY AND TO GOD BE GRATEFUL

4  SO HE MAY FORGIVE YOU YOUR SINS
AND GIVE YOU RESPITE FOR A TERM PREDESTINED 
WHEN THE TERM COMES IT CANNOT BE LENGTHENED

5  OH MY LORD, I HAVE CALLED TO MY PEOPLE NIGHT AND DAY

6  MY CALL ONLY INCREASES THEIR FLIGHT FROM THE RIGHT WAY

7  AND EVERY TIME I HAVE CALLED TO THEM 
IN ORDER THAT YOU MIGHT FORGIVE THEM 

THEY HAVE PUT THEIR FINGERS
INTO THEIR EARS 

AND COVERED THEMSELVES UP WITH THEIR GARMENTS 
AND GROWN OBSTINATE AND ACTED WITH ARROGANCE

8  SO I HAVE CALLED ALOUD TO THEM

9  AND IN PUBLIC AND IN PRIVATE SPOKEN TO THEM

10  SAYING, ASK GOD FOR FORGIVENESS 
FOR HE IS FULL OF FORGIVENESS

11  HE WILL SEND RAIN IN ABUNDANCE TO YOU

12  AND GIVE INCREASE IN WEALTH AND SONS TO YOU
AND GIVE YOU GARDENS WITH RIVERS FLOWING BENEATH YOU

13  WHY DO YOU HOPE NOT FOR A REWARD 
OF KINDNESS AND LONG SUFFERING WITH YOUR LORD?

14  SEEING THAT IT IS HE THAT HAS CREATED YOU IN STAGES DIVERSE 

15  SEE YOU NOT HOW GOD IS THE CREATOR
OF THE SEVEN HEAVENS ONE ABOVE THE OTHER?

16  HE MADE THE MOON A LIGHT IN THE MIDST SHINING BRIGHTLY 
AND HE MADE THE SUN AS A LAMP SHINING GLORIOUSLY 

17  AND HAS PRODUCED YOU FROM THE EARTH GROWING GRADUALLY

18  IN THE END HE WILL RETURN YOU INTO THE EARTH AGAIN
AND THEN HE WILL RAISE YOU FORTH AGAIN

19  GOD MADE THE EARTH FOR YOU AS A CARPET SPREAD WIDELY

20  THAT YOU MAY GO ABOUT IN IT IN ROADS SPACIOUSLY 

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CHAPTER 71.  NOAH                                                                         SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

21 NOAH SAID, OH MY LORD, MY PEOPLE HAVE DISOBEYED ME
AND THEY FOLLOW MEN WHOSE WEALTH AND PROGENY 
GIVE THEM NO INCREASE BUT LOSS ONLY

22  AND THEY HAVE DEVISED A PLOT THAT IS MIGHTY

23  AND THEY HAVE SAID TO EACH OTHER, ABANDON NOT YOUR DIETIES 
NOT WADD, SUWA,YAGUTH,YAUQ, NASR OR ANY OF THESE

24  THEY HAVE ALREADY MISLED MANY 
AND GRANT TO THE WRONG DOERS NO INCREASE 
WHO CONTINUE TO ACT REBELLIOUSLY 

25  THEY WERE DROWNED IN THE FLOOD BECAUSE OF THEIR SINS  
AND THEY WERE MADE TO ENTER THE FIRE AS PUNISHMENT
AND THEY FOUND BESIDES GOD NO AVERTMENT

26  AND NOAH SAID, OH MY LORD, LEAVE NONE
OF THE DISBELIEVERS ON EARTH, NOT A SINGLE ONE

27  FOR IF YOU DO LEAVE OF THEM ANY
YOUR DEVOTEES THEY WILL INDEED MISLEAD  
AND NONE BUT UNGRATEFUL ONES WILL THEY BREED

28  LORD, FORGIVE ME AND MY PARENTS AND ALL WHO ENTER 
MY HOUSE IN FAITH AND ALL OF THE BELIEVERS 
MEN AND WOMEN AND TO THE WRONG DOERS 
GRANT NO INCREASE TO THEM BUT IN ERROR

     

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CHAPTER 72.  THE DEMONS                                                          SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  SAY, I HAVE RECEIVED REVELATION
THAT A COMPANY OF THE  DEMONS
LISTENED TO THE QURAN
AND SAID, WE HAVE HEARD WONDERFUL INSTRUCTION

2  IT GIVES GUIDANCE TO RIGHT AND WE HAVE BELIEVED 
AND WE WILL NOT JOIN GODS WITH GOD IN DEITY

3  AND EXALTED IS OUR LORD, THE MAJESTIC ONE
HE HAS TAKEN NEITHER A WIFE NOR A SON

4  THERE WERE SOME AMONG US WHO FOOLISHLY
USED TO UTTER LIES AGAINST GOD EXTRAVAGANTLY

5  BUT NOW WE DO THINK THAT NOTHING WRONG 
SHOULD BE SAID AGAINST GOD BY ANYONE 
BY NEITHER MAN OR DEMON

6  TRUE THERE WERE PERSONS 
AMONG MANKIND WHO TOOK SHELTER WITH PERSONS 
AMONG THE DEMONS BUT THEY INCREASED THEM IN TRANSGRESSION

7  AND THEY AND YOU MADE THE SAME ASSUMPTION
THAT GOD WOULD NOT RAISE UP ANY ONE

8  AND WE PRIED INTO THE SECRETS OF HEAVEN BUT OUR FINDINGS
WAS IT WAS FILLED WITH STERN GUARDS AND FIRES FLAMING 

9  WE USED TO SIT THERE IN HIDDEN STATIONS TO STEAL A HEARING 
BUT ANY WHO LISTENS NOW WILL FIND A FIRE FLAMING 
LYING IN WAIT FOR HIM AND WATCHING 

10  AND WE UNDERSTAND NOT WHETHER 
ILL IS INTENDED TO THOSE ON EARTH OR WHETHER 
THEIR LORD REALLY INTENDS TO GUIDE THEM TO ACT PROPER

11  THERE ARE SOME OF US THAT ACT RIGHTEOUSLY
AND SOME THE CONTRARY, WE FOLLOW PATHS THAT VARY

12  WE THINK THAT WE CAN BY NO MEANS ESCAPE GOD'S PENALTY 
THROUGH THE EARTH NOR CAN WE BY FLIGHT ESCAPE THE PENALTY 

13  AND AS FOR US SINCE WE HAVE HEARD 
THE GUIDANCE OF OUR LORD WE ARE BELIEVERS
AND ANY WHO BELIEVES IN HIS LORD HAS NO FEAR
OF A SHORT ACCOUNT OR OF INJUSTICE EITHER

14  AMONG US ARE SOME THAT ARE SUBMITTERS
OF THEIR WILLS TO GOD AND SOME ARE DEVIATORS
BUT THOSE WHO SUBMIT ARE RIGHT DOERS

15  BUT THOSE WHO ARE DEVIATORS
THEY ARE BUT FUEL FOR THE HELL FIRE 

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CHAPTER 72.  THE DEMONS                                        SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXIX 

16  AND GOD'S MESSAGE IS, IF THEY HAD ONLY
REMAINED ON THE RIGHT WAY, WE WOULD CERTAINLY 
HAVE BESTOWED ON THEM RAIN ABUNDANTLY

17  THAT WE MIGHT TRY THEM BY THAT MANNER 
BUT IF ANY TURNS AWAY FROM THE CREATOR
HIS PUNISHMENT TO HIM WILL BE SEVERE

18  AND THE PLACES OF WORSHIP ARE ONLY FOR GOD 
SO CALL ON NOT ANY ONE ALONG WITH GOD 

19  WHEN THE DEVOTEE OF GOD STANDS FORTH TO CALL ON HIM 
THEY JUST MAKE A DENSE CROWD AROUND HIM

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CHAPTER 72.  THE DEMONS                                                          SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

20  SAY, I DO NO MORE THAN CALL ON MY GOD
AND I JOIN NOT WITH HIM ANY FALSE GOD

21  SAY, TO CAUSE YOU HARM IS NOT IN MY POWER 
OR TO BRING YOU TO RIGHT CONDUCT EITHER

22  SAY, NO ONE CAN DELIVER ME FROM GOD 
NOR SHOULD I FIND REFUGE EXCEPT IN GOD

23  I MUST ONLY PROCLAIM WHAT I RECEIVE FROM THE CREATOR 
FOR ANY THAT DISOBEYS GOD AND HIS MESSENGER
FOR THEM IS HELL AND THEY WILL DWELL IN IT FOREVER

24  AT LENGTH WHEN THEY SEE THAT WHICH THEY ARE ASSURED
THEN WILL THEY KNOW WHO IS WEAKEST AS HIS HELPER 
AND LEAST IMPORTANT IN POINT OF NUMBERS

25  SAY, I KNOW NOT WHETHER 
THE PUNISHMENT WHICH YOU ARE PROMISED IS NEAR
OR WHETHER MY LORD WILL APPOINT FOR IT A TERM FURTHER

26  HE ALONE KNOWS THE UNSEEN NOR DOES HE 
MAKE ANY ONE AQUATINTED WITH HIS MYSTERIES

27  EXCEPT WHOM HE HAS CHOSEN AS A MESSENGER
AND THEN HE MAKES A BAND OF WATCHERS 
MARCH BEFORE HIM AND AFTER

28  AND THAT HE MAY KNOW THAT THEY HAVE TRULY 
BROUGHT AND DELIVERED THE MESSAGES CLEARLY
AND HE SURROUNDS ALL OF THE MYSTERIES 
AND TAKES ACCOUNT OF EVERYTHING WITH CERTAINTY

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CHAPTER 73.  THE ONE WRAPPED IN GARMENTS                SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  OH YOU COVERING
IN WRAPPINGS

2  STAND TO PRAYER BY NIGHT
BUT NOT ALL NIGHT

3  HALF OF IT 
OR A LITTLE LESS THAN IT

4  OR A LITTLE MORE THAN IT
AND RECITE THE QURAN SLOWLY AND RHYTHMIC 

5  SOON WILL WE 
SEND DOWN TO YOU A MESSAGE THAT IS WEIGHTY

6  THE RISING BY NIGHT IS MOST POTENT FOR GOVERNING 
AND MOST SUITABLE FOR PRAYER AND PRAISING

7  TRUE THERE IS BY DAY FOR YOU 
PROLONGED OCCUPATION WITH ORDINARY DUES

8  BUT KEEP IN REMEMBRANCE GOD'S NAME DEVOTEDLY 
AND KEEP YOURSELF TO HIM WHOLE HEARTEDLY

9  HE IS LORD OF EAST AND WEST, THERE IS NO GOD BUT HE 
TAKE HIM FOR YOUR DISPOSER OF AFFAIRS IN SECURITY

10  AND HAVE PATIENCE WITH WHAT THEY SAY
AND LEAVE THEM IN A NOBLE WAY

11  AND THE DENIERS AND POSSESSORS OF PLENTY
LEAVE THEM WITH ME AND RESPITE THEM TEMPORARILY

12  WITH US ARE FETTERS TO BIND THEM 
AND A FIRE TO BURN THEM

13  AND FOOD THAT CHOKES THEM
AND A GRIEVOUS PENALTY FOR THEM

14  ONE DAY THE EARTH AND THE MOUNTAINS WILL BE 
IN VIOLENT COMMOTION AND THE MOUNTAINS WILL BE 
JUST A HEAP OF SAND POURED OUT FLOWING HELPLESSLY

15  WE HAVE SENT TO YOU TO BE A WITNESS, AN APOSTLE 
EVEN AS WE SENT TO PHARAOH AN APOSTLE

16  BUT PHARAOH DISOBEYED THE APOSTLE 
SO WE SEIZED HIM WITH A PENALTY THAT WAS TERRIBLE

17  HOW WILL YOU IF YOU TURN AWAY
THEN GUARD YOURSELVES AGAINST A DAY 
THAT WILL MAKE CHILDREN'S HAIR GRAY

18  ON WHICH THE SKY WILL BE CLEFT ASUNDER 
HIS PROMISE MUST BE ACCOMPLISHED FOR SURE

19  SURELY THIS IS AN ADMONITION FROM YOUR LORD
WHOEVER WILL LET HIM TAKE A STRAIGHT PATH TO HIS LORD

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20  YOUR LORD KNOWS THAT DURING THE NIGHT
YOU STAND UP PRAYING FOR TWO THIRDS OF THE NIGHT 
OR HALF OF THE NIGHT OR A THIRD OF THE NIGHT 

AND SO DO A PARTY OF THOSE WITH YOU
GOD APPOINTS DAY AND NIGHT AND KNOWS THAT YOU 
ARE UNABLE TO KEEP COUNT SO HE HAS TURNED TO YOU 
SO READ OF THE QURAN AS MUCH AS MAY BE EASY FOR YOU
HE KNOWS THAT THERE MAY BE SOME AMONG YOU 
IN ILL HEALTH, OTHERS TRAVELING THE EARTH THROUGH 

SEEKING OF THEIR LORD'S BOUNTY
OTHERS FIGHTING IN GOD'S CAUSE EARNESTLY
SO READ AS MUCH OF THE QURAN AS MAY BE EASY 
AND ESTABLISH PRAYER REGULARLY 
ALSO PRACTICE REGULAR CHARITY 
AND LOAN TO GOD A LOAN OF BEAUTY

AND WHATEVER GOOD YOU SEND FORWARD 
YOU WILL FIND IT WITH GOD GREATER IN REWARD 
AND SEEK THE GRACE OF YOUR LORD 
FOR FORGIVING AND MERCIFUL IS YOUR LORD

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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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CHAPTER 75.  THE RESURRECTION                                            SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  I CALL TO WITNESS THE DAY OF RESURRECTION

2  AND I CALL TO WITNESS THE SELF REPROACHING PERSON

3  DOES MAN THINK WE CANNOT ASSEMBLE HIS CREATION?

4  WE ARE ABLE TO PUT TOGETHER 
IN PERFECT ORDER, THE VERY TIPS OF HIS FINGERS

5  BUT MAN WISHES TO CONTINUE TO COMMIT ERRORS

6  HE QUESTIONS, WHEN IS THE DAY OF THE FINAL HOUR?

7  AT LENGTH WHEN THE SIGHT IS IN BLACKNESS

8  AND THE MOON IS BURIED IN DARKNESS

9  AND THE SUN AND MOON COME TOGETHER JOINTLY

10  THAT DAY MAN WILL SAY, WHERE IS THERE TO FLEE?

11  BY NO MEANS, NO PLACE OF SAFETY WILL THE PLACE OF REST BE

13  THAT DAY WILL MAN BE TOLD 
ALL THAT HE PUT FORWARD AND ALL HE DID WITHHOLD

14  MAN WILL AGAINST HIMSELF BE A WITNESS

15  EVEN THOUGH HE WERE TO PUT UP EXCUSES

16  MOVE NOT YOUR TONGUE WITH THE QURAN IN HASTE WITH IT

17  IT IS FOR US TO COLLECT IT AND TO PROMULGATE IT

18  BUT WHEN WE HAVE PROMULGATED IT 
FOLLOW THE RECITATION OF IT

19  MOREOVER IS IT FOR US TO EXPLAIN IT 

20  BUT IT IS THE LIFE OF THIS LIFE YOU PREFER

21  AND YOU DENY THE HEREAFTER 

22  SOME FACES THAT DAY WILL BE BRIGHT

23  LOOKING TOWARDS THEIR LORD WITH DELIGHT

24  AND SOME FACES THAT DAY WILL BE SAD AND GLOOMY

25  KNOWING THAT INFLICTED ON THEM WILL BE A CALAMITY 

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26  WHEN THE SOUL REACHES TO THE COLLAR BONE OF HIM

27  THERE WILL BE A CRY, WHO IS A MAGICIAN TO RESTORE HIM?

28  AND HE WILL CONCLUDE AS HE IS DYING
THAT IT WAS THE TIME OF DEPARTING

29  AND AFFLICTION WILL BE COMBINED WITH AFFLICTION

30  THAT DAY TO THEIR LORD IS THEIR DESTINATION

CHAPTER 75.  THE RESURRECTION                                           SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

31  SO HE GAVE NOTHING IN CHARITY NOR DID HE PRAY

32  ON THE CONTRARY HE REJECTED TRUTH AND TURNED AWAY

33  THEN DID HE TALK TO HIS FAMILY IN A CONCEITED WAY

34  WOE TO YOU
YES WOE TO YOU

35  AGAIN WOE TO YOU
YES WOE TO YOU

36  DOES MAN THINK THAT HE WILL BE LEFT UNCOMMITTED?

37  WAS HE NOT JUST A DROP OF SPERM EMITTED?

38  THEN WAS A LEECH LIKE CLOT MADE OF HIM
THEN DID GOD CREATE HIM AND FASHION HIM 

39  AND HE MADE THE TWO SEXES MALE AND FEMALE OF HIM

40  IS HE NOT POWERFUL TO GIVE LIFE AFTER DEATH TO HIM?

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CHAPTER 76.  MAN                                                                           SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  THERE HAS BEEN OVER MAN A PERIOD WHEN HE WAS NOTHING 
NOT EVEN CAPABLE OF MENTIONING

2  WE CREATED MAN FROM A DROP OF SPERM IN ORDER TO TRY HIM 
SO WE GAVE THE GIFTS OF HEARING AND SIGHT TO HIM

3  BE HE GRATEFUL OR UNGRATEFUL WE SHOWED THE WAY TO HIM

4  FOR THE REJECTERS WE HAVE PREPARED
CHAINS AND YOKES AND A BLAZING FIRE

5  AS TO THE RIGHTEOUS DOERS
THEY WILL DRINK OF A CUP TEMPERED WITH CAMPHOR

6  A FOUNTAIN WHERE GOD'S DEVOTEES 
DRINK IT FLOWING ABUNDANTLY

7  THEY PERFORM THEIR VOWS AND THEY FEAR
A DAY WHOSE EVIL FLIES FAR AND NEAR

8  AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD THEY FEED 
THE ORPHAN AND THOSE IN NEED

9  SAYING, WE FEED YOU FOR THE SAKE OF OUR LORD 
NO THANKS DO WE DESIRE FROM YOU OR REWARD

10  WE FEAR FROM OUR LORD A DAY HARD AND DISTRESSFUL
THAT WILL MAKE THE FACES LOOK HORRIBLE

11  BUT GOD WILL DELIVER THEM FROM THE EVIL OF THAT DAY 
AND WILL GIVE THEM A LIGHT OF BEAUTY IN A BLISSFUL WAY 

12  AND BECAUSE THEY BORE PATIENTLY  
HE WILL REWARD THEM WITH GARDENS OF PERPETUITY

13  RECLINING IN THE GARDEN ON RAISED THRONES OF EASE
THEY WILL SEE NEITHER EXCESSIVE COLD OR HEAT EXCESSIVELY

14  AND THE SHADES OF THE GARDEN WILL COME LOWLY  
AND THE FRUIT THERE WILL HANG LOW IN HUMILITY 

15  AMONG THEM WILL BE PASSED ROUND SILVER VESSELS 
AND CRYSTAL CLEAR GOBLETS OF CRYSTAL

16  CRYSTAL CLEAR MADE OF SILVER 
AND THEY WILL DETERMINE THE MEASURE 

17  AND THEY WILL BE GIVEN THERE 
A CUP OF WINE MIXED WITH GINGER

18  AND A SALSABIL FOUNTAIN THERE

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CHAPTER 76.  MAN                                                         SECTION 1 (CONT'D). PART XXIX 

19  ROUND THEM WILL SERVE YOUTHS OF FRESHNESS PERPETUAL 
AND YOU WOULD THINK OF THEM AS SCATTERED PEARLS 

20  WHEN YOU LOOK THERE IT IS BLISS YOU WILL SEE 
AND A REALM MAGNIFICENTLY

21  AND THERE WILL BE GREEN GARMENTS OF FINE SILK UPON THEM
HEAVY BROCADE AND BRACELETS OF SILVER WILL ADORN THEM
THEIR LORD WILL GIVE WINE PURE AND HOLY TO THEM

22  SURELY THIS IS A REWARD FOR YOU
AND YOUR ENDEAVOR IS ACCEPTED FROM YOU

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CHAPTER 76.  MAN                                                                           SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

23  IT IS WE WHO HAVE SENT
THE QURAN IN INCREMENTS

24  THEREFORE BE PATIENT WITH CONSTANCY TO GOD'S ORDERS
AND LISTEN NOT TO THE INGRATE OR THE SINNER

25  AND CELEBRATE THE NAME OF GOD IN THE MORNING
AND CELEBRATE HIS NAME IN THE EVENING

26  AND PART OF THE NIGHT PROSTRATE YOURSELF TO HIM
AND ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT GLORIFY HIM

27  AS TO THESE THEY LOVE THE FLEETING LIFE AND PUT AWAY 
BEHIND THEM A DIFFICULT DAY

28  IT IS WE WHO CREATED THEM IN DECREE  
AND HAVE PUT TOGETHER THEIR JOINTS STRONGLY 
WE CAN SURELY SUBSTITUTE THE LIKE OF THEM EASILY

29  THIS IS A WARNING WORD
WHOEVER WILL LET HIM TAKE A STRAIGHT WAY TO HIS LORD

30  BUT YOU WILL NOT EXCEPT AS GOD DECREES
FOR FULL OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM IS HE

31  WHOM HE PLEASES HE WILL ADMIT TO HIS MERCY
BUT HE HAS PREPARED FOR WRONG DOERS A GRIEVOUS PENALTY

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CHAPTER 77.  THOSE SENT FORTH                                           SECTION 1.  PART XXIX 

IN THE NAME OF GOD 
THE MOST GRACIOUS AND MERCIFUL GOD

1  BY THE MESSENGERS
SENT FORTH ONE AFTER ANOTHER

2  AND BY THE WINDS THAT BLOW IN TERROR

3  AND BY THE WINDS THAT SCATTER

4  THEN SEPARATE THEM ONE FROM ANOTHER

5  BY THE ANGELS WHO BRING REVELATIONS TO THE MESSENGERS 

6  WHETHER AS JUSTIFIERS OR WARNERS

7  WHAT YOU ARE PROMISED MUST COME TO PASS FOR SURE

8  THEN WHEN THERE IS A DIMMING OF THE STARS

9  WHEN THE HEAVEN IS CLEFT ASUNDER

10  WHEN THE MOUNTAINS ARE AS DUST AND SCATTERED

11  AND WHEN THE MESSENGERS 
AT THEIR TIME APPOINTED ARE GATHERED

12  FOR WHAT DAY ARE THESE SIGNS DEFERRED?

13  THEY ARE DEFERRED FOR THE DAY OF DECISION

14  AND WHAT WILL EXPLAIN TO YOU WHAT IS THE DAY OF DECISION?

15  WOE THAT DAY TO THOSE IN REJECTION

16  DID WE NOT DESTROY THE FORMER GENERATIONS?

17  THEN WE FOLLOWED THEM UP WITH LATER ONES

18  SO DO WE DEAL WITH MEN OF TRANSGRESSION

19  WOE THAT DAY TO THOSE WHO ARE IN REJECTION

20  HAVE WE NOT CREATED YOU FROM ORDINARY WATER?

21  THEN WE PLACE IT IN A PLACE SECURE

22  FOR A PERIOD DETERMINED

23  FOR WE DO SURELY DETERMINE
AND WE ARE THE BEST TO DETERMINE

24  WOE THAT DAY TO THOSE IN REJECTION

25  HAVE WE NOT MADE THE EARTH DRAW TOGETHER

26  THE LIVING AND THE DEAD TOGETHER

27  AND MADE IN IT MOUNTAINS STANDING FIRM, LOFTY IN STATURE
AND PROVIDED FOR YOU SWEET AND WHOLESOME WATER?

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CHAPTER 77.  THOSE SENT FORTH                         SECTION 1 (CONT'D).  PART XXIX

28  WOE THAT DAY TO THE REJECTERS

29  DEPART YOU WHO USED TO BE REJECTERS

30  TO THE SHADOW HAVING THREE BRANCHES ASCENDING

31  WITH NO SHADING AND NO AVAILING 
FROM THE FIRES BLAZING

32  IT THROWS OUT SPARKS LARGELY 

33  AS IF THEY WERE CAMELS MARCHING SWIFTLY

34  WOE THAT DAY TO THE REJECTERS INDEED

35  THAT WILL BE A DAY THEN THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO SPEAK

36  NOR WILL IT BE OPEN TO THEM TO PUT FORTH PLEAS

37  WOE THAT DAY TO THE REJECTERS INDEED

38  THAT WILL BE A DAY OF SORTING OUT SEPARATELY 
WE WILL GATHER YOU TOGETHER AND THOSE PREVIOUSLY

39  NOW IF YOU HAVE NOW A PLOT AGAINST ME 
USE IT NOW AGAINST ME

40  WOE THAT DAY TO THE REJECTERS INDEED

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CHAPTER 77.  THOSE SENT FORTH                                            SECTION 2.  PART XXIX 

41  THE RIGHTEOUS WILL BE AMIDST SHADES AND SPRINGS

42  OF THEIR DESIRES THEY WILL HAVE EVERYTHING

43  EAT AND DRINK COMFORTABLY
FOR THAT YOU WORKED RIGHTEOUSLY

44  WE REWARD THE DOERS OF THINGS GODLY

45  WOE THAT DAY TO THE REJECTERS 

46  OH YOU WRONG DOERS
EAT AND DRINK A LITTLE WHILE FOR YOU ARE SINNERS

47  WOE THAT DAY TO THE REJECTERS

48  WHEN IT IS SAID TO THEM, BOW DOWN AS SUBMITTERS
THEY DO NOT BOW DOWN AS SUBMITTERS

49  WOE THAT DAY TO THE REJECTERS

50  IN WHAT MESSAGE AFTER THIS WILL THEY THEN BE BELIEVERS?

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