The Rising of the Dead

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

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Nay, I swear by the Day of Resurrection;

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Nay, I swear by the accusing soul (that this Scripture is true).

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Thinketh man that We shall not assemble his bones ?

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Yea, verily. We are Able to restore his very fingers!

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But man would fain deny what is before him.

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He asketh: When will be this Day of Resurrection ?

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But when sight is confounded

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And the moon is eclipsed

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And sun and moon are united,

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On that day man will cry: Whither to flee!

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Alas! No refuge!

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Unto thy Lord is the recourse that day.

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On that day man is told the tale of that which he hath sent before and left behind.

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Oh, but man is a telling witness against himself,

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Although he tender his excuses.

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Stir not thy tongue herewith to hasten it.

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Lo! upon Us (resteth) the putting together thereof and the reading thereof.

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And when We read it, follow thou the reading;

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Then lo! upon Us (resteth) the explanation thereof.

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Nay, but ye do love the fleeting Now

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And neglect the Hereafter.

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That day will faces be resplendent,

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Looking toward their Lord;

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And that day will other faces be despondent,

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Thou wilt know that some great disaster is about to fall on them.

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Nay, but when the life cometh up to the throat

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And men say: Where is the wizard (who can save him now) ?

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And he knoweth that it is the parting;

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And agony is heaped on agony;

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Unto thy Lord that day will be the driving.

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For he neither trusted, nor prayed.

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But he denied and flouted.

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Then went he to his folk with glee.

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Nearer unto thee and nearer,

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Again nearer unto thee and nearer (is the doom).

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Thinketh man that he is to be left aimless ?

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Was he not a drop of fluid which gushed forth ?

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Then he became a clot; then (Allah) shaped and fashioned

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And made of him a pair, the male and female.

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Is not He (Who doeth so) Able to bring the dead to life ?