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By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour;
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By the Moon as she follows him;
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By the Day as it shows up (the Sun’s)glory;
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By the Night as it conceals it;
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By the Firmament and its (wonderful)structure;
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By the Earth and its (wide) expanse:
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By the Soul, and the proportion andorder given to it;
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And its enlightenment as to its wrongand its right;
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Truly he succeeds that purifies it,
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And he fails that corrupts it!
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The Thamud (people) rejected (theirprophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing,
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Behold, the most wicked man among themwas deputed (for impiety).
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But the Messenger of Allah said to them:”It is a She-camel of Allah. And (bar her not from) having her drink!”
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Then they rejected him (as a falseprophet), and they hamstrung her. So their Lord, on account of their crime,obliterated their traces and made them equal (in destruction, high and low)!
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And for Him is no fear of itsconsequences.
