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By those [angels] who wrest [the soul] violently,
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by those who draw [it] out gently,
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by those who swim smoothly,
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by those who, racing, take the lead,
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by those who direct the affairs [of creatures]:
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the day when the Quaker quakes
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and is followed by the Successor,
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hearts will be trembling on that day,
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bearing a humbled look.
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They will say, ‘Are we being returned to our earlier state?
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What, even after we have been decayed bones?!’
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They will say, ‘This is, then, a ruinous return!’
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Yet it will be only a single shout,
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and behold, they will be awake.
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Did you receive the story of Moses,
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when his Lord called out to him in the holy valley of Tuwa?
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[And said,] ‘Go to Pharaoh, for indeed he has rebelled,
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and say, ‘‘Would you purify yourself?
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I will guide you to your Lord, that you may fear [Him]?’’ ’
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Then he showed him the greatest sign.
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But he denied, and disobeyed.
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Then he turned back, walking swiftly,
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and gathered [the people] and proclaimed,
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saying, ‘I am your exalted lord!’
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So Allah seized him with the punishment of this life and the Hereafter.
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There is indeed a moral in that for someone who fears!
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Is your creation more prodigious or that of the heaven He has built?
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He raised its vault and fashioned it,
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and darkened its night, and brought forth its forenoon.
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Thereafter He spread out the earth,
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