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An asker asked for a punishment sure to befall
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—which none can avert from the faithless —
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from Allah, Lord of the lofty stations.
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The angels and the Spirit ascend to Him in a day whose span is fifty thousand years.
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So be patient, with a patience that is graceful.
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Indeed they see it to be far off,
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and We see it to be near.
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The day when the sky will be like molten copper,
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and the mountains like [tufts of] dyed wool,
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and no friend will inquire about [the welfare of his] friend,
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[though] they will be placed within each other’s sight. The guilty one will wish he could ransom himself from the punishment of that day at the price of his children,
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his spouse and his brother,
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his kin, which had sheltered him
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and all those who are upon the earth, if that might deliver him.
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Never! Indeed, it is a blazing fire,
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which strips away the scalp.
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It invites him, who has turned back [from the truth] and forsaken [it],
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amassing [wealth] and hoarding [it].
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Indeed man has been created covetous:
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anxious when an ill befalls him
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and grudging [charity] when good comes his way
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—[all are such] except the prayerful,
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those who persevere in their prayers
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and there is a known share in whose wealth
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for the beggar and the deprived,
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and who affirm the Day of Retribution,
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and those who are apprehensive of the punishment of their Lord
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(there is indeed no security from the punishment of their Lord)
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and those who guard their private parts
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(apart from their spouses and their slave women, for then they are not blameworthy;
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