1. The Sure Reality!
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2. What is the Sure Reality?
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3. And what will make you realize what the Sure Reality is?
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4. The Thamud and the 'Ad people (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!
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5. But the Thamud, - they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!
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6. And the 'Ad, - they were destroyed by a furious Wind exceedingly violent;
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7. He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession: so that you could see the (whole) people lying prostrate in its (path), as if they had been roots of hollow palm-trees tumbled down!
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8. Then do you see any of them left surviving?
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9. And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin,
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10. And disobeyed (each) the Messenger of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant penalty.
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11. We, when the water (of Noah's Flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating (Ark),
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12. That We might make it a Message unto you, and that” ears (that should hear the tale and) retain its memory should bear its (lessons) in remembrance.
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13. Then, when one blast is sounded on the Trumpet,
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14. And the earth is moved, and its mountains and they are crushed to powder at one stroke,
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15. On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass,
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16. And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,
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17. And the angels will be on its sides, and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of your Lord Above them.
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18. That Day you shall be brought to Judgment: not an act of yours that you hide will be hidden.
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19. Then he that will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Ah here! You read my Record!
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20. "I did really understand that my Account would (one Day) reach me!"
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21. And he will be in a life of Bliss,
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22. In a Garden on high,
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23. The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.
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24. "You eat and you drink, with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that you sent before you, in the days that are gone!"
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25. And he that will be given his Record in his left hand will say: "Ah! Would that my record had not been given to me!
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26. "And that I had never realized how my account (stood)!
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27. "Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!
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28. "Of no profit to me has been my wealth!
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29. "My power has perished from me!"
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30. (The stem command will say): "You seize him and you bind him,
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31. "And you bum him in the Blazing Fire.
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32. "Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!
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33. "This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High,
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34. "And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!
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35. "So no friend he has here this Day.
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36. "Nor has he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,
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37. "Which none do eat but those in sin."
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