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By the Book clear in itself and clearly showing the truth.
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We sent it down on a night full of blessings; surely We have ever been warning (humankind since their creation).
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In that night every affair is identified and made distinct for wise purposes,
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As a command issued from Our Presence; surely We have ever been sending Messengers (from among the angels and human beings to convey Our decrees and guide),
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As a mercy from your Lord – surely He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing –
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The Lord of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, if you would but seek certainty (about the Messenger and the Book he brings).
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There is no deity but He, giving life and causing to die; your Lord and the Lord of your forefathers.
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Yet (they do not desire certainty; instead) they are in an irrecoverable doubt, lost in the playthings of the worldly life.
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Then watch (O Messenger) for the day when the sky will bring forth a visible smoke,
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Which will engulf the people, (causing them to exclaim): "This is a painful punishment.
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Our Lord! Remove this punishment from us, for now we are true believers.
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How is a reminder possible for them (such that their profession of faith could be true), seeing that there has come to them a Messenger making the truth clear (and embodying it in every element of his life and character),
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But they turn away from him and say (of him): "One taught by others, a madman."
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We will hold back the punishment for a little (while), but you will turn back (to your former ways of unbelief, whose outcome is a punishment everlasting) –
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On the day when We will seize with the mightiest grasp. We will indeed take retribution.
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Before them, assuredly We tried the people of the Pharaoh, when there came to them a noble Messenger,
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Saying: "Deliver to me the servants of God! I am a trustworthy Messenger sent to you (by God).
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And do not exalt yourself in proud defiance against God (by disobeying His order and so rejecting my Messengership). Surely I have come to you with an evident authority.
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I have sought refuge in my Lord, Who is surely also your Lord, from your stoning me to death.
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If you will not believe in me, then keep away from me (let me go)!
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Then he called upon his Lord: "These are indeed a guilty people committed to accumulating sin."
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Then (his Lord commanded him): "Set forth with My servants by night. You are sure to be pursued.
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And now leave the sea in quiet (as it was when it divided for you), for they are a host destined to be drowned.
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How many were the gardens and springs that they left behind;
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And cornfields, and excellent dwellings, and elevated, honored situations;
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And other comforts of life, in which they used to take delight!
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Just so! And We made another people heirs (to the bounties they enjoyed).
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And neither the heaven nor the earth shed tears over them, nor were they given a respite (when the punishment became due on them).
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And indeed We delivered the Children of Israel from the humiliating persecutions
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