[Prophet], glorify the name of your Lord the Most High
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One of the 60 subdivisions of the Quran (half a Juz)
[Prophet], glorify the name of your Lord the Most High
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who created [all things] in due proportion
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who determined their destinies and guided them
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who brought out the green pasture
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then made it dark debris
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[Prophet], We shall teach you [the Quran] and you will not forget––
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unless God wishes; He knows both what is open and what is hidden––
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We shall show you the easy way
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So remind, if reminding will help
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Those who stand in awe of God will heed the reminder
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but it will be ignored by the most wicked
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who will enter the Great Fire
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where they will neither die nor live
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Prosperous are those who purify themselves
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remember the name of their Lord, and pray
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Yet you [people] prefer the life of this world
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even though the Hereafter is better and more lasting
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All this is in the earlier scriptures
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the scriptures of Abraham and Moses
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Have you heard tell [Prophet] about the Overwhelming Event
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On that Day, there will be downcast faces
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toiling and weary
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as they enter the blazing Fire
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and are forced to drink from a boiling spring
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with no food for them except bitter dry thorns
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that neither nourish nor satisfy hunger
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On that Day there will also be faces radiant with bliss
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well pleased with their labour
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in a lofty garden
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where they will hear no idle talk
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with a flowing spring
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raised couches
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goblets placed before them
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cushions set in rows
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and carpets spread
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Do the disbelievers not see how rain clouds are formed
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how the heavens are lifted
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how the mountains are raised high
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how the earth is spread out
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So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning
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you are not there to control them
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As for those who turn away and disbelieve
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God will inflict the greatest torment upon them
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It is to Us they will return
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and then it is for Us to call them to account
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By the Daybreak
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by the Ten Nights
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by the even and the odd
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by the passing night––
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is this oath strong enough for a rational person
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Have you [Prophet] considered how your Lord dealt with [the people] of 'Ad
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of Iram, [the city] of lofty pillars
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whose like has never been made in any land
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and the Thamud, who hewed into the rocks in the valley
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and the mighty and powerful Pharaoh
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All of them committed excesses in their lands
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and spread corruption there
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your Lord let a scourge of punishment loose on them
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Your Lord is always watchful
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[The nature of] man is that, when his Lord tries him through honour and blessings, he says, ‘My Lord has honoured me,’
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but when He tries him through the restriction of his provision, he says, ‘My Lord has humiliated me.’
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No indeed! You [people] do not honour orphans
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you do not urge one another to feed the poor
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you consume inheritance greedily
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and you love wealth with a passion
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No indeed! When the earth is pounded to dust, pounded and pounded
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when your Lord comes with the angels, rank upon rank
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when Hell is that Day brought near- on that Day man will take heed, but what good will that be to him then
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He will say, ‘Would that I had provided for this life to come!’
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On that Day, no one will punish as He punishes
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and no one will bind as He binds
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‘[But] you, soul at peace
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return to your Lord well pleased and well pleasing
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go in among My servants
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and into My Garden.’
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I swear by this city––
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and you [Prophet] are an inhabitant of this city––
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[I swear] by parent and offspring
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that We have created man for toil and trial
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Does he think that no one will have power over him
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‘I have squandered great wealth,’ he says
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Does he think no one observes him
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Did We not give him eyes
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a tongue, lips
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and point out to him the two clear ways [of good and evil]
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Yet he has not attempted the steep path
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What will explain to you what the steep path is
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It is to free a slave
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to feed at a time of hunger
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an orphaned relative
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or a poor person in distress
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and to be one of those who believe and urge one another to steadfastness and compassion
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Those who do this will be on the right-hand side
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but those who disbelieve in Our revelations will be on the left-hand side
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and the Fire will close in on them
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By the sun in its morning brightness
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and by the moon as it follows it
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by the day as it displays the sun’s glory
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and by the night as it conceals it
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by the sky and how He built it
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and by the earth and how He spread it
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by the soul and how He formed it
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and inspired it [to know] its own rebellion and piety
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The one who purifies his soul succeeds
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and the one who corrupts it fails
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In their arrogant cruelty, the people of Thamud called [their messenger] a liar
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when the most wicked man among them rose [against him]
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The messenger of God said to them, ‘[Leave] God’s camel to drink,’
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but they called him a liar and hamstrung her. Their Lord destroyed them for their crime and levelled them
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He did not hesitate to punish them
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By the enshrouding night
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by the radiant day
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by His creation of male and female
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The ways you take differ greatly
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There is the one who gives, who is mindful of God
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who testifies to goodness––
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We shall smooth his way towards ease
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There is the one who is miserly, who is self-satisfied
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who denies goodness––
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We shall smooth his way towards hardship
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and his wealth will not help him as he falls
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Our part is to provide guidance––
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this world and the next belong to Us––
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so I warn you about the raging Fire
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in which none but the most wicked one will burn
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who denied [the truth], and turned away
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The most pious one will be spared this––
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who gives his wealth away as self-purification
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not to return a favour to anyone
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but for the sake of his Lord the Most High––
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and he will be well pleased
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By the morning brightness
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and by the night when it grows still
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your Lord has not forsaken you [Prophet], nor does He hate you
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and the future will be better for you than the past
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your Lord is sure to give you so much that you will be well satisfied
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Did He not find you an orphan and shelter you
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Did He not find you lost and guide you
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Did He not find you in need and make you self-sufficient
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So do not be harsh with the orphan
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and do not chide the one who asks for help
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talk about the blessings of your Lord
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Did We not relieve your heart for you [Prophet]
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and remove the burden
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that weighed so heavily on your back
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and raise your reputation high
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So truly where there is hardship there is also ease
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truly where there is hardship there is also ease
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The moment you are freed [of one task] work on
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and turn to your Lord for everything
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By the fig, by the olive
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by Mount Sinai
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by this safe town
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We create man in the finest state
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then reduce him to the lowest of the low
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except those who believe and do good deeds––
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they will have an unfailing reward. After this, what makes you [man] deny the Judgement
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Is God not the most decisive of judges
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Read! In the name of your Lord who created
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He created manfrom a clinging form
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Read! Your Lord is the Most Bountiful One
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who taught by [means of] the pen
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who taught man what he did not know
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But man exceeds all bounds
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when he thinks he is self-sufficient
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[Prophet], all will return to your Lord
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Have you seen the man who forbids
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[Our] servant to pray
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Have you seen whether he is rightly guided
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or encourages true piety
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Have you seen whether he denies the truth and turns away from it
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Does he not realize that God sees all
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No! If he does not stop, We shall drag him by his forehead––
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his lying, sinful forehead
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Let him summon his comrades
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We shall summon the guards of Hell
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No! Do not obey him [Prophet]: bow down in worship and draw close
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We sent it down on the Night of Glory
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What will explain to you what that Night of Glory is
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The Night of Glory is better than a thousand months
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on that night the angels and the Spirit descend again and again with their Lord’s permission on every task
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[there is] peace that night until the break of dawn
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Those who disbelieve among the People of the Book and the idolaters were not about to change their ways until they were sent clear evidence
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a messenger from God, reading out pages [blessed with] purity
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containing true scriptures
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[Yet] those who were given the Scripture became divided only after they were sent [such] clear evi-dence
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though all they are ordered to do is worship God alone, sincerely devoting their religion to Him as people of true faith, keep up the prayer, and pay the prescribed alms, for that is the true religion
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Those who disbelieve among the People of the Book and the idolaters will have the Fire of Hell, there to remain. They are the worst of creation
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Those who believe and do good deeds are the best of creation
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Their reward with their Lord is everlasting Gardens graced with flowing streams, where they will stay forever. God is well pleased with them and they with Him. All this is for those who stand in awe of their Lord
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When the earth is shaken violently in its [last] quaking
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when the earth throws out its burdens
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when man cries, ‘What is happening to it?’
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on that Day, it will tell all
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because your Lord will inspire it [to do so]
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On that Day, people will come forward in separate groups to be shown their deeds
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whoever has done an atom’s-weight of good will see it
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but whoever has done an atom’s-weight of evil will see that
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By the charging steeds that pant
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and strike sparks with their hooves
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who make dawn raids
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raising a cloud of dust
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and plunging into the midst of the enemy
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man is ungrateful to his Lord––
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and He is witness to this––
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he is truly excessive in his love of wealth
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Does he not know that when the contents of graves burst forth
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when the secrets of hearts are uncovered, on that Day
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their Lord will be fully aware of them all
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The Crashing Blow
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What is the Crashing Blow
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What will explain to you what the Crashing Blow is
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On a Day when people will be like scattered moths
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and the mountains like tufts of wool
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the one whose good deeds are heavy on the scales
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will have a pleasant life
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but the one whose good deeds are light
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will have the Bottomless Pit for his home––
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what will explain to you what that is?––
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a blazing fire
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Striving for more distracts you
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until you go into your graves
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No indeed! You will come to know
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No indeed! In the end you will come to know
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No indeed! If only you knew for certain
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You will most definitely see Hellfire
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you will see it with the eye of certainty
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On that Day, you will be asked about your pleasures
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By the declining day
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man is [deep] in loss
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except for those who believe, do good deeds, urge one another to the truth, and urge one another to steadfastness
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Woe to every fault-finding backbiter
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who amasses riches, counting them over
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thinking they will make him live for ever
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No indeed! He will be thrust into the Crusher
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What will explain to you what the Crusher is
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It is God’s Fire, made to blaze
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which rises over people’s hearts
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It closes in on them
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in towering columns
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Do you [Prophet] not see how your Lord dealt with the army of the elephant
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Did He not utterly confound their plans
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He sent ranks of birds against them
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pelting them with pellets of hard-baked clay
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He made them [like] cropped stubble
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[He did this] to make the Quraysh feel secure
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secure in their winter and summer journeys
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So let them worship the Lord of this House
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who provides them with food to ward off hunger, safety to ward off fear
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[Prophet], have you considered the person who denies the Judgement
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It is he who pushes aside the orphan
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and does not urge others to feed the needy
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So woe to those who pray
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but are heedless of their prayer
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those who are all show
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and forbid common kindnesses
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We have truly given abundance to you [Prophet]––
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so pray to your Lord and make your sacrifice to Him alone––
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it is the one who hates you who has been cut off
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Say [Prophet], ‘Disbelievers
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I do not worship what you worship
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you do not worship what I worship
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I will never worship what you worship
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you will never worship what I worship
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you have your religion and I have mine.’
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When God’s help comes and He opens up your way [Prophet]
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when you see people embracing God’s faith in crowds
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celebrate the praise of your Lord and ask His forgiveness: He is always ready to accept repentance
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May the hands of Abu Lahab be ruined! May he be ruined too
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Neither his wealth nor his gains will help him
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he will burn in the Flaming Fire––
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and so will his wife, the firewood-carrier
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with a palm-fibre rope around her neck
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Say, ‘He is God the One
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God the eternal
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He begot no one nor was He begotten
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No one is comparable to Him.’
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Say [Prophet], ‘I seek refuge with the Lord of daybreak
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against the harm in what He has created
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the harm in the night when darkness gathers
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the harm in witches when they blow on knots
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the harm in the envier when he envies.’
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Say, ‘I seek refuge with the Lord of people
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the Controller of people
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the God of people
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against the harm of the slinking whisperer––
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who whispers into the hearts of people––
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whether they be jinn or people.’
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