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89:1  CONSIDER the daybrea
89:2  and the ten nights
89:3  Consider the multiple and the One
89:4  Consider the night as it runs its course
89:5  Considering all this - could there be, to anyone endowed with reason, a [more] solemn evidence of the truth
89:6  ART THOU NOT aware of how thy Sustainer has dealt with [the tribe of] ‘Ad
89:7  [the people of] Iram the many-pillared
89:8  the like of whom has never been reared in all the land? –
89:9  and with [the tribe of] Thamud, who hollowed out rocks in the valley? –
89:10  and with Pharaoh of the [many] tent-poles
89:11  [It was they] who transgressed all bounds of equity all over their lands
89:12  and brought about great corruption therein
89:13  and therefore thy Sustainer let loose upon them a scourge of suffering
89:14  for, verily, thy Sustainer is ever on the watch
89:15  BUT AS FOR man, whenever his Sustainer tries him by His generosity and by letting him enjoy a life of ease, he says, "My Sustainer has been [justly] generous towards me"
89:16  whereas, whenever He tries him by straitening his means of livelihood, he says, "My Sustainer has disgraced me!"
89:17  But nay, nay, [O men, consider all that you do and fail to do:] you are not generous towards the orphan
89:18  and you do not urge one another to feed the needy
89:19  and you devour the inheritance [of others] with devouring greed
89:20  and you love wealth with boundless love
89:21  Nay, but [how will you fare on Judgment Day,] when the earth is crushed with crushing upon crushing
89:22  and [the majesty of] thy Sustainer stands revealed, as well as [the true nature of] the angels; rank upon rank
89:23  And on that Day hell will be brought [within sight]; on that Day man will remember [all that he did and failed to do]: but what will that remembrance avail him
89:24  He will say, "Oh, would that I had. provided beforehand for my life [to come]!"
89:25  For, none can make suffer as He will make suffer [the sinners] on that Day
89:26  and none can bind with bonds like His
89:27  [But unto the righteous God will say,] "O thou human being that hast attained to inner peace
89:28  Return thou unto thy Sustainer, well-pleased [and] pleasing [Him]
89:29  enter, then, together with My [other true] servants –
89:30  yea, enter thou My paradise!"