Those Who Drag Forth

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

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By those who drag forth to destruction,

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By the meteors rushing,

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By the lone stars floating,

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By the angels hastening,

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And those who govern the event,

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On the day when the first trump resoundeth.

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And the second followeth it,

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On that day hearts beat painfully

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While eyes are downcast

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(Now) they are saying: Shall we really be restored to our first state

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Even after we are crumbled bones ?

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They say: Then that would be a vain proceeding.

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Surely it will need but one shout,

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And lo! they will be awakened.

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Hath there come unto thee the history of Moses ?

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How his Lord called him in the holy vale of Tuwa,

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(Saying:) Go thou unto Pharaoh – Lo! he hath rebelled –

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And say (unto him): Hast thou (will) to grow (in grace) ?

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Then I will guide thee to thy Lord and thou shalt fear (Him).

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And he showed him the tremendous token.

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But he denied and disobeyed,

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Then turned he away in haste,

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Then gathered he and summoned

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And proclaimed: “I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest.”

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So Allah seized him (and made him) an example for the after (life) and for the former.

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Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for him who feareth.

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Are ye the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built ?

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He raised the height thereof and ordered it;

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And He made dark the night thereof, and He brought forth the morn thereof.

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And after that He spread the earth,

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And produced therefrom the water thereof and the pasture thereof,

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And He made fast the hills,

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A provision for you and for your cattle.

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But when the great disaster cometh,

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The day when man will call to mind his (whole) endeavour,

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And hell will stand forth visible to him who seeth,

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Then, as for him who rebelled

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And chose the life of the world,

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Lo! hell will be his home.

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But as for him who feared to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from lust,

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Lo! the Garden will be his home.

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They ask thee of the Hour: when will it come to port ?

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Why (ask they) ? What hast thou to tell thereof ?

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Unto thy Lord belongeth (knowledge of) the term thereof.

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Thou art but a warner unto him who feareth it.

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On the day when they behold it, it will be as if they had but tarried for an evening or the morn thereof.