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By the heaven, and by the nightly visitor
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(and what will show you what is the nightly visitor?
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It is the brilliant star):
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there is a guard over every soul.
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So let man consider from what he was created.
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He was created from an effusing fluid
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which issues from between the loins and the breast-bones.
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Indeed He is able to bring him back [after death],
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on the day when the secrets are examined
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and he shall have neither power nor helper.
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By the resurgent heaven,
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and by the furrowed earth:
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it is indeed a conclusive discourse,
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Indeed they are devising a stratagem,
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and I [too] am devising a plan.
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So respite the faithless; give them a gentle respite.