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51:1
By the atoms that scatter.
51:4
Distributing a command.
51:5
What you are being promised is true.
51:6
The Judgment will come to pass.
51:7
By the sky with orbits.
51:8
You are in verbal discord.
51:9
Misled by it is the deviant.
51:10
Woe to the deceitful.
51:11
Who are in mischief, unaware.
51:12
They ask: "When is the day of Judgment?"
51:13
The day they are tested upon the fire.
51:14
"Taste this trial of yours; this is what you asked to be hastened."
51:15
The righteous are in paradises and springs.
51:16
Receiving what their Lord has bestowed to them, for they were before that pious.
51:17
They used to rarely sleep the whole night.
51:18
Before dawn, they would seek forgiveness.
51:19
And in their money was a portion for the needy and the deprived.
51:20
In the earth are signs for those who reason.
51:21
Within yourselves; do you not see?
51:22
In the heaven is your provision, and what you are promised.
51:23
By the Lord of the heaven and the earth, this is truth just as the fact that you speak.
51:24
Has the story of Abraham's noble guests come to you?
51:25
When they entered upon him, they said, "Peace." He said, "Peace to a people unknown!"
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Then he went to his family and brought a fat roasted calf.
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He offered it to them, he said, "Do you not eat?"
51:28
He then became fearful of them. They said, "Do not fear," and they gave him good news of a knowledgeable son.
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His wife then approached in amazement. She slapped upon her face, and said, "I am a sterile old woman!"
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They said, "It was such that your Lord has said. He is the Wise, the Knowledgeable."
51:31
He said, "What is your undertaking, O messengers?"
51:32
They said, "We have been sent to a criminal people."
51:33
"To send down upon them rocks of clay."
51:34
"Prepared by your Lord for the transgressors."
51:35
We then vacated from it all those who affirmed.
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But We only found in it one house of those who had peacefully surrendered.
51:37
We have left in it a sign for those who fear the painful retribution.
51:38
Also Moses, for We sent him to Pharaoh with a clear authority.
51:39
But he turned away, in arrogance, and he said, "A magician, or crazy."
51:40
So We took him and his troops; We cast them into the sea, and he was to blame.
51:41
Also Aad, for We sent upon them the hurricane wind.
51:42
Anything that it came upon was utterly destroyed.
51:43
Also Thamud, for it was said to them: "Enjoy for a while."
51:44
But they rebelled against the command of their Lord. So the lightning struck them while they were looking.
51:45
They were unable to rise up, nor could they win.
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The people of Noah before; they were a wicked people.
51:47
We constructed the universe with might, and We are expanding it.
51:48
The earth We furnished; We are fine Providers.
51:49
From everything We created a pair, perhaps you may remember.
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So escape to God. I am to you from Him a clear warner.
51:51
Do not make any other god with God. I am to you from Him a clear warner.
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Likewise, when a messenger went to those before them, they said, "A magician, or crazy."
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Have they passed down this saying to each other? Indeed, they are a wicked people.
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So turn away from them; you will not be blamed.
51:55
Remind, for the reminder benefits those who affirm.
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I did not create the Jinn and the humans except to serve Me.
51:57
I need no provisions from them, nor do I need them to give food.
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God is the Provider, the One with Power, the Supreme.
51:59
The transgressors will have the same fate as their previous friends; so let them not be hasty.
51:60
So woe to those who rejected from the day that is waiting for them.
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