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The Sure Reality!
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What is the Sure Reality?
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And what will make thee realise what theSure Reality is?
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The Thamud and the ‘Ad People (branded)as false the Stunning Calamity!
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But the Thamud,- they were destroyed bya terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!
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And the ‘Ad, they were destroyed by afurious Wind, exceedingly violent;
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He made it rage against them sevennights and eight days in succession: so that thou couldst see the (whole)people lying prostrate in its (path), as they had been roots of hollowpalm-trees tumbled down!
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Then seest thou any of them leftsurviving?
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And Pharaoh, and those before him, andthe Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.
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And disobeyed (each) the apostle oftheir Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.
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We, when the water (of Noah’s Flood)overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating (Ark),
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That We might make it a Message untoyou, and that ears (that should hear the tale and) retain its memory shouldbear its (lessons) in remembrance.
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Then, when one blast is sounded on theTrumpet,
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And the earth is moved, and itsmountains, and they are crushed to powder at one stroke,-
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On that Day shall the (Great) Event cometo pass.
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And the sky will be rent asunder, for itwill that Day be flimsy,
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And the angels will be on its sides, andeight will, that Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord above them.
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That Day shall ye be brought toJudgment: not an act of yours that ye hide will be hidden.
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Then he that will be given his Record inhis right hand will say: “Ah here! Read ye my Record!
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“I did really understand that my Accountwould (One Day) reach me!”
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And he will be in a life of Bliss,
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In a Garden on high,
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The Fruits whereof (will hang inbunches) low and near.
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“Eat ye and drink ye, with fullsatisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you, in the daysthat are gone!”
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And he that will be given his Record inhis left hand, will say: “Ah! Would that my Record had not been given to me!
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“And that I had never realised how myaccount (stood)!
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“Ah! Would that (Death) had made an endof me!
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“Of no profit to me has been my wealth!
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“My power has perished from me!”…
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(The stern command will say): “Seize yehim, and bind ye him,
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“And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.
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“Further, make him march in a chain,whereof the length is seventy cubits!
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“This was he that would not believe inAllah Most High.
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“And would not encourage the feeding ofthe indigent!
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“So no friend hath he here this Day.
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“Nor hath he any food except thecorruption from the washing of wounds,
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“Which none do eat but those in sin.”
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So I do call to witness what ye see,
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And what ye see not,
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That this is verily the word of anhonoured apostle;
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It is not the word of a poet: little itis ye believe!
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Nor is it the word of a soothsayer:little admonition it is ye receive.
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(This is) a Message sent down from theLord of the Worlds.
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And if the apostle were to invent anysayings in Our name,
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We should certainly seize him by hisright hand,
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And We should certainly then cut off theartery of his heart:
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Nor could any of you withhold him (fromOur wrath).
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But verily this is a Message for theAllah.fearing.
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And We certainly know that there areamongst you those that reject (it).
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But truly (Revelation) is a cause ofsorrow for the Unbelievers.
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But verily it is Truth of assuredcertainty.
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So glorify the name of thy Lord MostHigh.