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The Hour approaches and the Moon is splitting apart!
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Yet if they see any sign, they avoid it and say: 'It's constant magic!"
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They deny [it all] and follow their own whims, even though every matter has been settled.
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News has come to them containing a rebuke,
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as eloquent wisdom, even though warners can get nowhere.
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So turn away from them on the day when the Crier will call out about a horrible event.
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Their eyes cast down, they will issue forth from their tombs as if they were scattered grasshoppers
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dashing along towards the Crier. Disbelievers will say: "This is such a hard day!"
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Noah's folk denied it long before them; they rejected Our servant and said: "[He's] crazy!", and he was rebuffed.
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He appealed to his Lord: "I have been overpowered, so support [me]!"
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So We opened Heaven's gates for water to pour down.
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We drilled the earth full of springs and the waters met at a command which had been decreed.
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We transported him on a [ship] built with planks and nails
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which sailed on before Our eyes, as a reward for someone who had been rejected.
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We left it as a sign; yet will anyone bear it in mind?
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How were My torment, and My warnings?
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We have made the Quran easy to memorize; yet will anyone [bother to] memorize it?
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Ad rejected it. How were My torment, and My warnings?
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We sent a howling gale against them on a day full of continuous misfortune
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which snatched men up as if they were hollow palm trunks.
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How were My torment, and My warnings!
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We have made the Quran easy to memorize; yet will anyone memorize it?
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Thamud rejected My warnings too
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and they said: "Are we to follow a single human being from among ourselves? We would then be in error and frenzy.
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Has the Reminder been delivered merely to him among Us? Instead he is a brash liar."
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Tomorrow they will know who the brash liar is!
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We are sending them a she-camel as a test, so watch them and act patient.
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Announce to them how water must be shared among them [and the she-camel]; each will have his own special time to drink.
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They called out to their companion; and he assumed the task and hamstrung [her].
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How were My torment, and My warnings?
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We sent a single Blast against them so they [lay] like dry stalks caught in a fence corner.
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We have made the Quran easy to memorize; yet will anyone [bother to] memorize it?
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Lot's people rejected the warnings.
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We sent a sandstorm against them, except for Lot's own household whom We saved at daybreak
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as a favor from Ourself; thus We reward anyone who acts grateful.
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He had warned them of Our onslaught, yet they discredited the warnings.
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They tried to coax his guests away from him, so We dazzled their eyes. "Taste My torment and My warnings!"
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Early one morning, unavoidable torment dawned upon them.
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"Taste My torment and My warnings!"
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We have made the Quran easy to memorize; yet will anyone memorize it?
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Warnings came to Pharaoh's court.
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Yet they rejected Our signs completely, so We seized them the way a Powerful, Competent person would seize [them].
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Are your disbelievers any better than those men were, or have you some dispensation [to be found] in the Psalms?
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Or do they say: "We all support one another"?
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They will all be defeated together and turn their backs [to run away].
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Indeed, the Hour has been promised them; the Hour will be quite disastrous and most bitter.
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Criminals will be lost in error and frenzy.
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Some day they will be dragged face down through the Fire: "Experience the sense of scorching!"
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We have created everything in due proportion.
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Our command comes only once, in the twinkling of an eye!
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We wiped out your adherents; does no one recall it?
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Everything they did is [to be found] in the Psalms;
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everything small or great has been recorded.
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The heedful will be by gardens and rivers
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in a sure position under a Competent Sovereign.
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