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79:1
By those [angels] who wrest [the soul] violently,
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by those who draw [it] out gently,
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by those who swim smoothly,
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by those who, racing, take the lead,
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by those who direct the affairs [of creatures]:
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the day when the Quaker quakes
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and is followed by the Successor,
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hearts will be trembling on that day,
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bearing a humbled look.
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They will say, ‘Are we being returned to our earlier state?
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What, even after we have been decayed bones?!’
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They will say, ‘This is, then, a ruinous return!’
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Yet it will be only a single shout,
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and behold, they will be awake.
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Did you receive the story of Moses,
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when his Lord called out to him in the holy valley of Tuwa?
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[And said,] ‘Go to Pharaoh, for indeed he has rebelled,
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and say, ‘‘Would you purify yourself?
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I will guide you to your Lord, that you may fear [Him]?’’ ’
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Then he showed him the greatest sign.
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But he denied, and disobeyed.
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Then he turned back, walking swiftly,
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and gathered [the people] and proclaimed,
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saying, ‘I am your exalted lord!’
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So Allah seized him with the punishment of this life and the Hereafter.
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There is indeed a moral in that for someone who fears!
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Is your creation more prodigious or that of the heaven He has built?
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He raised its vault and fashioned it,
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and darkened its night, and brought forth its forenoon.
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Thereafter He spread out the earth,
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brought forth from it its water and pastures,
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setting firm the mountains,
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as a [place of] sustenance for you and your livestock.
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When the Greatest Catastrophe befalls
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—the day when man will remember his endeavours
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and hell is brought into view for those who can see—
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as for him who has been rebellious
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and preferred the life of this world,
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his refuge will indeed be hell.
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But as for him who is awed to stand before his Lord and restrains his soul from [following] desires,
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his refuge will indeed be paradise.
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They ask you concerning the Hour, “When will it set in,
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considering your frequent mention of it?”
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Its outcome is with your Lord.
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You are only a warner for those who are afraid it.
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The day they see it, it shall be as if they had not stayed [in the world] except for an evening or forenoon.
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