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How awesome the sudden calamity
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What is the (Day) of Noise and Clamour
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What is (that) awesome disaster
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What is the Shocke
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What is the sudden, mighty strike
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What is the calamity
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What is the pounding disaster?
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What is the Disaster
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What is the Sudden Calamity?
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What is the Calamity
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What is the Shocker?
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What is the Sudden Calamity

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And what is that high-scale jolt rocking (everything) and that thunder
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What is the smiting
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What is the loud thunder strike?
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What is the Calamity?
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What is the calamity?
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What is the striker?
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What is the Calamity,
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What a dreadful event, the Qaria!
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What is the terrible disaster
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How pounding is that collision
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What is the calamity?
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What is the sudden calamity?

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What (is) the Striking Calamity
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Ma alqariAAatu