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AN INQUIRER ASKED for the affliction that is to come
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Upon the infidels -- which none would be able to repel --
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From God, the Lord of the steps (of progression),
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To whom the angels and the soul take a day to ascend, whose length is fifty thousand years.
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So persevere with becoming patience.
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They surely take it to be far away,
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But We see it very near.
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The day the sky becomes like molten brass,
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The mountains like the tufts of (carded) wool,
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And no friend inquires after friend
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Though within sight of one another. The sinner would like to ransom himself from the torment of that Day by offering his sons,
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His wife and his brother,
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And his family who had stood by him,
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And all those who are on the earth, to save himself.
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But never. It is pure white flame
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That would skin the scalp.
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It will summon whoever turns his back and flees,
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Who amasses and then hoards.
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Surely man is greedy by nature.
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If evil befalls him he is perturbed;
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If good comes to him he holds back his hand,
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Except those who closely follow (the Book of God),
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Who persevere in devotion,
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In whose wealth a due share is included
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For the needy and those dispossessed,
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And those who believe in the Day of Judgement,
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And those who fear the punishment of their Lord, --
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Surely no one can be secure from the punishment of his Lord, --
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And those who guard their sex except from their wives and women slaves of old
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