Sura LXXVIII (78)
The News
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Of what ask they of one another?
Of the great News.
The theme of their disputes.
Nay! they shall certainly know
its truth!
Again. Nay! they shall certainly
know it.
Have we not made the Earth a
couch?
And the mountains its
tent-stakes?
We have created you of two
sexes,
And ordained your sleep for
rest,
78:10 And
ordained the night as a mantle,
And ordained the day for gaining
livelihood,
And built above you seven solid
heavens,
And placed therein a burning
lamp;
And we send down water in
abundance from the rain-clouds,
That we may bring froth by it
corn and herbs,
And gardens thick with trees.
Lo! the day of Severance is
fixed;
The day when there shall be a
blast on the trumpet, and you shall come in crowds,
And the heaven shall be opened
and be full of portals,
78:20 And
the mountains shall be set in motion, and melt into thin vapour.
Hell truly shall be a place of
snares,
The home of transgressors,
To abide therein ages;
No coolness shall they taste
therein nor any drink,
Save boiling water and running
sores;
Meet recompense!
For they looked not forward to
their account;
And they gave the lie to our
signs, charging them with falsehood;
But we noted and wrote down all:
78:30
"Taste this then: and we will give you
increase of nought but torment."
But, for the God-fearing is a
blissful abode,
Enclosed gardens and vineyards;
And damsels with swelling
breasts, their peers in age,
And a full cup:
There shall they hear no vain
discourse nor any falsehood:P
A recompense from thy Lord --
sufficing gift! --
Lord of the heavens and of the earth,
and of all that between them lieth - the God of Mercy! But not a word shall
they obtain from Him.
On the day whereon the Spirit
and the Angels shall be ranged in order, they shall not speak: save he whom the God of Mercy shall permit, and
who shall say that which is right.
This is the sure day. Whoso then
will, let him take the path of return to his Lord.
78:40
Verily, we warn you of a chastisement close at hand:
The day on which a man shall see
the deeds which his hands have sent before him; and when the unbeliever shall
say, "Oh! would I were dust!"
Sura LXXIX (79)
Those Who Drag Forth
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By those angels who drag forth
souls with violence,
And by those who with joyous
release release them;
By those who swim swimmingly
along;
By those who are foremost with
foremost speed;
By those who conduct the affairs
of the universe!
One day, the disturbing
trumpet-blast shall disturb it,
Which the second blast shall
follow:
Men's hearts on that day shall
quake: --
Their looks be downcast.
79:10 The
infidels will say, "Shall we indeed be restored as at first?
What! when we have become rotten
bones?"
"This then," say they,
"will be a return to loss."
Verily, it will be but a single
blast,
And lo! they are on the surface
of the earth.
Hath the story of Moses reached
thee?
When his lord called to him in
Towa's holy vale:
Go to Pharaoh, for he hath burst
all bounds:
And say:
"Wouldest thou become just?
Then I will guide thee to thy
Lord that thou mayest fear him."
79:20 And
he showed him a great miracle, --
But he treated him as an
impostor, and rebelled;
Then turned he his back all
hastily,
And gathered an assembly and
proclaimed,
And said, "I am your Lord
supreme."
So God visited on him the
punishment of this life and of the other.
Verily, herein is a lesson for
him who hath the fear of God.
Are you the harder to create, or
the heaven which he hath built?
He reared its height and
fashioned it,
And gave darkness to its night,
and brought out its light,
79:30 And
afterwards stretched forth the earth, --
He brought forth from it its
waters and its pastures;
And set the mountains firm
For you and your cattle to enjoy.
But when the grand overthrow
shall come,
The day when a man shall reflect
on the pains that he hath taken,
And Hell shall be in full view
of all who are looking on;
Then, as for him who hath
transgressed
And hath chosen this present
life,
Verily, Hell -- that shall be
his dwelling-place:
79:40 But
as to him who shall have feared the majesty of his Lord, and shall have
refrained his soul form lust,
Verily,
They will ask thee of "the
Hour," when will be its fixed time?
But what knowledge hast thou of
it?
Its period is known only to thy
Lord;
And thou art only charged with
the warning of those who fear it.
On the day when they shall see
it, it shall seem to them as though they had not tarried in the tomb, longer
than its evening or its morn.
Sura LXXX (80)
He Frowned
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
He Frowned, and he turned his
back,
Because the blind man came to him!
But what assured thee that he
would not be cleansed by the Faith,
Or be warned, and the warning
profit him?
As to him who is wealthy --
To him thou wast all attention:
Yet is it not thy concern if he
be not cleansed:
But as to him who cometh to thee
in earnest,
And full of fears --
80:10 Him
dost thou neglect.
Nay! but it (the Koran) is a
warning;
(And whoso is willing beareth it
in mind)
Written on honoured pages,
Exalted, purified,
By the hands of Scribes,
honoured, righteous.
Cursed be man! What hath made
him unbelieving?
Of what thing did God create
him,
80:20 Then
made him an easy passage from the womb,
Then caused him to die and
burieth him;
Then, when he pleaseth, will
raise him again to life.
Aye! but man hath not yet
fulfilled the bidding of his Lord.
Let man look at his food:
It was We who rained down the
copious rains,
Then cleft the earth with
clefts,
And caused the upgrowth of the
grain,
And grapes and healing herbs,
And the olive and the palm,
80:30 And
enclosed gardens thick with trees,
And fruits and herbage,
For the service of yourselves
and of your cattle.
But when the stunning
trumpet-blast shall arrive,
On that day shall a man fly from
his brother,
And his mother and his father,
And his wife and his children;
For every man of them on that
day his own concerns shall be enough.
There shall be faces on that day
radiant,
Laughing and joyous:
80:40 And
faces on that day with dust upon them:
Blackness shall cover them!
These are the Infidels, the
Impure.
Sura LXXXI (81)
The Folded Up
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
When the sun shall be Folded Up,
And when the stars shall fall,
And when the mountains shall be set
in motion,
And when the she-camels shall be
abandoned,
And when the wild beasts shall
be gathered together,
And when the seas shall boil,
And when the souls shall be
paired with their bodies,
And when the female child that
had been buried alive shall be asked
For what crime she was put to
death,
81:10 And
when the leaves of the Book shall be unrolled,
And when the Heavens shall be
stripped away,
And when Hell shall be made to
blaze,
And when
Every soul shall know what it
hath produced.
It needs not that I swear by the
stars of retrograde motions
Which move swiftly and hide
themselves away,
And by the night when it cometh
darkening on,
And by the dawn when it
brighteneth,
That this is the word of an
illustrious Messenger,
81:20
Endued with power, having influence with the Lord of the Throne,
Obeyed there by Angels, faithful
to his trust,
And your compatriot is not one
possessed by djinn;
For he saw him in the clear
horizon:
Nor doth he teach the doctrine
of a cursed Satan.
Whither then are you going?
Verily, this is no other than a
warning to all creatures;
To him among you who willeth to
walk in a straight path:
But will it you shall not,
unless as God willeth it, the Lord of the worlds.
Sura LXXXII (82)
The Cleaving
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
When the Heaven shall Cleave
asunder,
And when the stars shall
disperse,
And when the seas shall be
conmingled,
And when the graves shall be
turned upside down,
Each soul shall recognise its
earliest and its latest actions.
O man! what had misled thee
against thy generous Lord,
Who hath created thee and
moulded thee and shaped thee aright?
In the form which pleased Him
hath He fashioned thee.
Even so; but you treat the
Judgment as a lie.
82:10 Yet
truly there are guardians over you --
Illustrious recorders --
Cognisant of your actions.
Surely amid delights shall the
righteous dwell,
But verily the impure in
Hell-fire:
They shall be burned at it on
the day of doom,
And they shall not be able to
hide themselves from it.
Who shall teach thee what the
day of doom is?
Once more. Who shall teach thee
what the day of doom is?
It is a day when one soul shall
be powerless for another soul: all sovereignty
on that day shall be with God.
Sura LXXXIII (83)
Those Who Stint
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Woe to those who Stint the
measure:
Who when they take by measure
from others, exact the full;
But when they mete to them or
weigh to them, minish --
What! have they no thought that
they shall be raised again
For the great day?
The day when mankind shall stand
before the Lord of the worlds.
Yes! the register of the wicked
is in Sidjin.
And who shall make thee
understand what Sidjin is?
It is a book distinctly written.
83:10 Woe,
on that day, to those who treated our signs as lies,
Who treated the day of judgment
as a lie!
None treat it as a lie, save the
transgressor, the criminal,
Who, when our signs are
rehearsed to him, saith, "Tales of the Ancients!"
Yes; but their own works have
got the mastery over their hearts.
Yes; they shall be shut out as
by a veil from their Lord on that day;
Then shall they be burned in
Hell-fire:
Then shall it be said to them,
"This is what you deemed a lie."
Even so. But the register of the
righteous is in Illiyoun.
And who shall make thee
understand what Illiyoun is?
83:20 A
book distinctly written;
The angels who draw nigh unto
God attest it.
Surely, among delights shall the
righteous dwell!
Seated on bridal couches they
will gaze around;
Thou shalt mark in their faces
the brightness of delight;
Choice sealed wine shall be
given them to quaff,
The seal of musk. For this let
those pant who pant for bliss --
Mingled therewith shall be the
waters of Tasnim --
Fount whereof they who draw nigh
to God shall drink.
The sinners indeed laugh the
faithful to scorn:
83:30 And
when they pass by them they wink at one another, --
And when they return to their
own people, they return jesting,
And when they see them they say,
"These are the erring ones."
And yet they have no mission to
be their guardians.
Therefore, on that day the
faithful shall laugh the infidels to scorn,
As reclining on bridal couches
they behold them.
Shall not the infidels be
recompensed according to their works?
Sura LXXXIV (84)
The Splitting Asunder
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
When the Heaven shall have Split
Asunder
And duteously obeyed its Lord;
And when Earth shall have been
stretched out as a plain,
And shall have cast forth what
was in her and become empty,
And duteously obeyed its Lord;
Then verily, O man, who desirest
to reach thy Lord, shalt thou meet him.
And he into whose right hand his
Book shall be given,
Shall be reckoned with in an
easy reckoning,
And shall turn, rejoicing, to
his kindred.
84:10 But
he whose Book shall be given him behind his back
Shall invoke destruction:
But in the fire shall he burn,
For that he lived joyously among
his kindred,
Without a thought that he should
return to God.
Yea, but his Lord beheld him.
It needs not therefore that I
swear by the sunset redness,
And by the night and its
gatherings,
And by the moon when at her
full,
That from state to state shall
you be surely carried onward.
84:20 What
then hath come to them that they believe not?
And that when the Koran is recited
to them they adore not?
Yea, the unbelievers treat it as
a lie.
But God knoweth their secret
hatreds:
Let their only tidings be those
of painful punishment;
Save to those who believe and do
the things that be right. An unfailing recompense shall be theirs.
Sura LXXXV (85)
The Starry
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the star-bespangled Heaven!
By the promised Day!
By the witness and the
witnessed!
Cursed the masters of the trench
Of the fuel-fed fire,
When they sat around it
Witnesses of what they inflicted
on the believers!
Nor did they torment them but
for their faith in God, the Mighty, the Praiseworthy:
His the kingdom of the Heavens
and of the Earth; and God is the witness of everything.
85:10
Verily, those who vexed the believers, men and women, and repented not, doth
the torment of Hell, and the torment of the burning, await.
But for those who shall have
believed and done the things that be right, are the Gardens beneath whose
shades the rivers flow. This is the immense bliss!
Verily, right terrible will by
thy Lord's vengeance!
He it is who produceth all
things, and causeth them to return;
And is He the Indulgent, the
Loving;
Possessor of the Glorious
throne;
Worker of that he willeth.
Hath not the story reached thee
of the hosts
Of Pharaoh and Themoud?
Nay! the infidels are all for
denial:
85:20 But
God surroundeth them from behind.
Yet it is a glorious Koran,
Written on the preserved Table.
Sura
LXXXVI (86)
The
Night-Comer
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the heaven, and by the
Night-Comer!
But who shall teach thee what
the night-comer is?
'Tis the star of piercing
radiance.
Over every soul is set a
guardian.
Let man then reflect out of what
he was created.
He was created of the
poured-forth germs,
Which issue from the loins and
breastbones:
Well able then is God to restore
him to life, --
On the day when all secrets
shall be searched out,
86:10 And
he shall have no other might or helper.
I swear by the heaven which
accomplisheth its cycle,
And by the earth which openeth
her bosom,
That his Koran is a
discriminating discourse,
And that it is not frivolous.
They plot a plot against thee,
And I will plot a plot against
them.
Deal calmly therefore with the
infidels; leave them awhile alone.
Sura LXXXVII (87)
The Most High
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Praise the name of thy Lord The
Most High,
Who hath created and balanced
all things,
Who hath fixed their destinies
and guideth them,
Who bringeth forth the pasture,
And reduceth it to dusky
stubble.
We will teach thee to recite the
Koran, nor aught shalt thou forget,
Save what God pleaseth; for he
knoweth alike things manifest and hidden;
And we will make easy to thee
our easy ways.
Warn, therefore, for the warning
is profitable:
87:10 He
that feareth God will receive the warning, --
And the most reprobate only will
turn aside from it,
Who shall not be exposed to the
terrible fire,
In which he shall not die, and
shall not live.
Happy he who is purified by
Islam,
And who remembereth the name of
his Lord and prayeth.
But you prefer this present
life,
Though the life to come is
better and more enduring.
This truly is in the Books of
old,
The Books of Abraham and Moses.
Sura LXXXVIII (88)
The Overshadowing
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Hath the tidings of the day that
shall Overshadow, reached thee?
Downcast on that day shall be
the countenances of some,
Travailing and worn,
Burnt at the scorching fire,
Made to drink from a fountain
fiercely boiling.
No food shall they have but the
fruit of Darih,
Which shall not fatten, nor
appease their hunger.
Joyous too, on that day, the
countenances of others,
Well pleased with their labours
past,
88:10 In a
lofty garden:
No vain discourse shalt thou
hear therein:
Therein shall be a gushing
fountain,
Therein shall be raised couches,
And goblets ready placed,
And cushions laid in order,
And carpets spread forth.
Can they not look up to the
clouds, how they are created;
And to the heaven how it is
upraised;
And to the mountains how they
are rooted;
88:20 And
to the earth how it is outspread?
Warn thou then; for thou art a
warner only:
Thou hast no authority over them:
But whoever shall turn back and
disbelieve,
God shall punish him with the
greater punishment.
Verily to Us shall they return;
Then shall it be Our's to reckon
with them.
Sura LXXXIX (89)
The Daybreak
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the Daybreak and ten nights.
By that which is single,
By the night when it pursues its
course!
Is there not in this an oath
becoming a man of sense?
Hast thou not seen how thy Lord
dealt with Ad,
At Irem adorned with pillars,
Whose like have not been reared
in these lands!
And with Themoud who hewed out
the rocks in the valley;
And with Pharaoh the impaler;
89:10 Who all
committed excesses in the lands,
And multiplied wickedness
therein.
Wherefore thy Lord let loose on
them the scourge of chastisement,
For thy Lord standeth on a watch
tower.
As to man, when his Lord trieth
him and honoureth him and is bounteous to him,
Then saith he, "My Lord
honoureth me:"
But when he proveth him and
limiteth his gifts to him,
He saith, "My Lord
despiseth me."
Aye. But you honour not the
orphan,
Nor urge you one another to feed
the poor,
89:20 And you
devour heritages, devouring greedily,
And you love riches with
exceeding love.
Aye. But when the earth shall be
crushed with crushing, crushing,
And thy Lord shall come and the
angels rank on rank,
And Hell on that day shall be
moved up, -- Man shall on that day remember himself. But how shall remembrance
help him?
He shall say, Oh! would that I
had prepared for this my life! On that day none shall punish as God punisheth,
And none shall bind with such
bonds as He.
Oh, thou soul which art at rest,
Return to thy Lord, pleased, and
pleasing him:
Enter thou among my servants,
89:30 And
enter thou my
Sura XC (90)
The Soil
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
I need not to swear by this
Soil,
This soil on which thou dost
dwell,
Or by sire and offspring!
Surely in trouble have we
created man.
What! thinketh he that no one
hath power over him?
"I have wasted," saith
he, "enormous riches!
What! thinketh he that no one
regardeth him?
What! have we not made him eyes,
And tongue, and lips,
90:10 And
guided him to the two highways?
Yet he attempted not the steep.
And who shall teach thee what
the steep is?
It is to ransom the captive,
Or to feed in the day of famine,
The orphan who is near of kin,
or the poor that lieth in the dust;
Beside this, to be of those who
believe, and enjoin stedfastness on each other, and enjoin compassion on each
other.
These shall be the people of the
right hand:
While they who disbelieve our
signs,
Shall be the people of the left.
90:20
Around them the fire shall close.
Sura XCI (91)
The Sun
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the Sun and his noonday
brightness!
By the Moon when she followeth
him!
By the Day when it revealeth his
glory!
By the Night when it enshroudeth
him!
By the Heaven and Him who built
it!
By the Earth and Him who spread
it forth!
And breathed into it its
wickedness and its piety,
Blessed now is he who hath kept
it pure,
91:10 And
undone is he who hath corrupted it!
Themoud in his impiety rejected
the message of the Lord,
When the greatest wretch among
them rushed up: --
Said the Apostle of God to them
-- "The Camel of God! let her drink."
But they treated him as an
impostor and hamstrung her.
So their Lord destroyed them for
their crime, and visited all alike:
Nor feared he the issue.
Sura XCII (92)
The Night
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the Night when she spreads
her veil;
By the Day when it brightly
shineth;
By Him who made male and female;
At different ends truly do you
aim!
But as to him who giveth alms and
feareth God,
And yieldeth assent to the Good;
To him will we make easy the
path to happiness.
But as to him who is covetous
and bent on riches,
And calleth the Good a lie,
92:10 To
him will we make easy the path to misery:
And what shall his wealth avail
him when he goeth down?
Truly man's guidance is with Us
And Our's, the Future and the
Past.
I warn you therefore of the
flaming fire;
None shall be cast to it but the
most wretched, --
Who hath called the truth a lie
and turned his back.
But the God-fearing shall escape
it, --
Who giveth away his substance
that he may become pure;
And who offereth not favours to
any one for the sake of recompense,
92:20 But
only as seeking the face of his Lord the Most High.
And surely in the end he shall
be well content.
Sura XCIII (93)
The Brightness
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the noon-day Brightness,
And by the night when it
darkeneth!
Thy Lord hath not forsaken thee,
neither hath he been displeased.
And surely the Future shall be
better for thee than the Past,
And in the end shall thy Lord be
bounteous to thee and thou be satisfied.
Did he not find thee an orphan
and gave thee a home?
And found thee needy and
enriched thee.
As to the orphan therefore wrong
him not;
93:10 And
as to him that asketh of thee, chide him not away;
And as for the favours of thy
Lord tell them abroad.
Sura XCIV (94)
The Opening
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Have we not Opened thine heart
for thee?
And taken off from thee thy
burden,
Which galled thy back?
And have we not raised thy name
for thee?
Then verily along with trouble
cometh ease.
Verily along with trouble cometh
ease.
But when thou art set at
liberty, then prosecute thy toil.
And seek thy Lord with fervour.
Sura XCV (95)
The Fig
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
I swear by the Fig and by the
olive,
By
And by this inviolate soil!
That of goodliest fabric we
created man,
Then brought him down to be the
lowest of the low; --
Save who believe and do the
things that are right, for theirs shall be a reward that faileth not.
Then, who after this shall make
thee treat the Judgment as a lie?
What! is not God the most just
of judges?
Sura XCVI (96)
Thick Blood/Clots of Blood
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Recite thou, in the name of thy
Lord who created; --
Created man from Clots of Blood: --
Recite thou! For thy Lord is the
most Beneficent,
Who hath taught the use of the
pen; --
Hath taught Man that which he
knoweth not.
Nay, verily, Man is insolent,
Because he seeth himself
possessed of riches.
Verily, to thy Lord is the
return of all.
What thinkest thou of him that
holdeth back
96:10 A servant
of God when he prayeth?
What thinkest thou? Hath he
followed the true Guidance, or enjoined Piety?
What thinkest thou? Hath he
treated the truth as a lie and turned his back?
What! doth he not know how that
God seeth?
Nay, verily, if he desist not,
We shall seize him by the forelock,
The lying sinful forelock!
Then let him summon his
associates;
We too will summon the guards of
Hell:
Nay! obey him not; but adore,
and draw nigh to God.
Sura XCVII (97)
Power
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Verily, we have caused It to
descend on the night of Power.
And who shall teach thee what
the night of power is?
The night of power excelleth a
thousand months:
Therein descend the angels and
the spirit by permission of their Lord for every matter;
And all is peace till the
breaking of the morn.
Sura XCVIII (98)
Clear Evidence
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
The unbelievers among the people
of the Book, and the Polytheists, did not waver, until the Clear Evidence had
come to them;
A messenger from God, reciting
to them the pure pages wherein are true Scriptures!
Neither were they to whom the
Scriptures were given divided into sects, till after this clear evidence had
reached them!
Yet was not aught enjoined on
them but to worship God with sincere religion, sound in faith; and to observe
prayer and pay the stated alms. For this is true religion.
But the unbelievers among the
people of the Book, and among the Polytheists, shall go into the fire of
Gehenna to abide therein for aye. Of all creatures are they the worst!
But they who believe and do the
things that are right -- these of all creatures are the best!
Their recompense with their Lord
shall be gardens of
God is well pleased in them and
they in Him! This, for him who feareth his Lord.
Sura XCIX (99)
The Earthquake
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
When the Earth with her quaking
shall quake
And the Earth shall cast forth
her burdens,
And man shall say, What aileth
her?
On that day shall she tell out
her tidings,
Because thy Lord shall have
inspired her.
On that day shall men come
forward in throngs to behold their works,
And whosoever shall have wrought
an atom's weight of good shall behold it.
And whosoever shall have wrought
an atom's weight of evil shall behold it.
Sura C (100)
The Chargers
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
By the snorting Chargers!
And those that dash off sparks
of fire!
And those that scour to the
attack at morn!
And stir therein the dust aloft;
And cleave therein their midway
through a host!
Truly, Man is to his Lord
ungrateful.
And of this he is himself a
witness;
And truly, he is vehement in the
love of this world's good.
Ah! knoweth he not, that when
that which is in the graves shall be laid bare,
100:10 And
that which is in men's breasts shall be brought forth,
Verily their Lord shall on that
day be informed concerning them?
Sura CI (101)
The Blow
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
The Blow! what is the Blow?
Who shall teach thee what the
Blow is?
The Day when men shall be like scattered
moths,
And the mountains shall be like
flocks of carded wool,
Then as to him whose balances
are heavy -- his shall be a life that shall please him well:
And as to him whose balances are
light -- his dwelling-place shall be the pit.
And who shall teach thee what
the pit (El-Hawiya) is?
A raging fire!
Sura CII (102)
Desire
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
The Desire of increasing riches
occupieth you,
Till you come to the grave.
Nay! but in the end you shall
know --
Nay! once more, in the end you
shall know your folly.
Nay! would that you knew it with
knowledge of certainty!
Surely you shall see hell-fire.
Then shall you surely see it
with the eye of certainty;
Then shall you on that day be
taken to task concerning pleasures.
Sura CIII (103)
The Afternoon
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
I swear by the declining day!
Verily, man's lot is cast amid
destruction,
Save those who believe and do
the things which be right, and enjoin truth and enjoin stedfastness on each
other.
Sura CIV (104)
The Backbiter
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Woe to every Backbiter, Defamer!
Who amasseth wealth and storeth
it against the future!
He thinketh surely that his
wealth shall be with him for ever.
Nay! for verily he shall be
flung into the Crushing Fire;
And who shall teach thee what
the Crushing Fire is?
It is God's kindled fire,
Which shall mount above the
hearts of the damned;
It shall verily rise over them
like a vault,
On outstretched columns.
Sura CV (105)
The Elephant
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Hast thou not seen how thy Lord
dealt with the army of the Elephant?
Did he not cause their stratagem
to miscarry?
And he sent against them birds
in flocks (ababils),
Claystones did they hurl down
upon them,
And he made them like stubble
eaten down!
Sura CVI (106)
The Koreisch
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
For the union of the Koreisch: --
Their union in equipping
caravans winter and summer.
And let them worship the Lord of
this house, who hath provided them with food against hunger,
And secured them against alarm.
Sura CVII (107)
Religion
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
What thinkest thou of him who
treateth our Religion as a lie?
He it is who thrusteth away the
orphan,
And stirreth not others up to
the feeding the poor.
Woe to those who pray,
But in their prayer are
careless;
Who make a shew of devotion,
But refuse help to the needy.
Sura CVIII (108)
The Abundance
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Truly we have given thee an
Abundance;
Pray therefore to the Lord, and
slay the victims.
Verily whoso hateth thee shall
be childless.
Sura CIX (109)
Unbelievers
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Say:
O you Unbelievers!
I worship not that which you
worship,
And you do not worship that
which I worship;
I shall never worship that which
you worship,
Neither will you worship that
which I worship.
To you be your religion; to me
my religion.
Sura CX (110)
Help
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When the Help of God and the
victory arrive,
And thou seest men entering the
religion of God by troops;
Then utter the praise of thy
Lord, implore His pardon; for He loveth to turn in mercy.
Sura CXI (111)
Abu Lahab
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Let the hands of Abu Lahab
perish, and let himself perish!
His wealth and his gains shall
avail him not.
Burned shall he be at the fiery
flame,
And his wife laden with fire
wood, --
On her neck a rope of palm
fibre.
Sura CXII (112)
The Unity
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Say:
He is God alone:
God the eternal!
He begetteth not, and He is not
begotten;
And there is none like unto Him.
Sura CXIII (113)
The Daybreak
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Say:
I betake me for refuge to the Lord of the Day Break
Against the mischiefs of his
creation;
And against the mischief of the
night when it overtaketh me;
And against the mischief of
weird women;
And against the mischief of the
envier when he envieth.
Sura CXIV (114)
Men
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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Say:
I betake me for refuge to the Lord of Men,
The King of men,
The God of men,
Against the mischief of the
stealthily withdrawing whisperer,
Who whispereth in man's breast
--
Against djinn and men.