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By those that (like winds) scatter far and wide;
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And those that (like clouds) bear heavy burdens:
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And those (like ships) that run with gentle ease;
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And those (angels) who distribute by command (of God, His provision of rain and innumerable other blessings):
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What you are promised is most certainly true:
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The Last Judgment is bound to take place.
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By the heaven full of braided pathways (for the movement of angels and celestial objects, for the sending down of God’s commands, and for the ascent of the diverse supplications of conscious beings by speech or act or need):
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Surely you are in contradicting views (about the Qur’an and how to describe it).
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Whoever has been deluded from it (the Qur’an) is (first) self-deluded (turning away from the right way in thought, belief, and action).
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Be away from God’s mercy the liars building on conjecture,
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Who are quite heedless (of truth) in an abyss of ignorance.
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They ask: "When is the Day of Judgment?"
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The Day when they will be tormented over the Fire.
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Taste your torment (that you have brought upon yourselves). This is what you (in mockery) would ask to be hastened!
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As for the God-revering, pious: they will be in Gardens and springs,
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Taking whatever their Lord grants them. For they were, before that, devoted to doing God’s commands, aware that God was seeing them.
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They used to sleep but little by night (almost never missing the Tahajjud Prayer).
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And in the hour of early dawn, they would implore God’s forgiveness.
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And in their wealth the poor (who had to beg) and the destitute (who did not beg out of shame) had due share (a right they gladly honored).
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On the earth there are (clear) signs (of God’s Oneness as Lord and Sovereign) for those who seek certainty;
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And also in your own selves. Will you then not see (the truth)?
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And in the heaven there is your provision, and what you are promised.
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Then, by the Lord of the heaven and the earth, this (promise) is as much (a fact conveyed to you) as that you speak.
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Has there come to you report of Abraham’s honored guests?
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They presented themselves before him and bade him peace. He said (in returning their greeting) "Peace!" (and thought:) A people unknown.
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He withdrew to his household and brought a (roast of) fatted calf.
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He placed it before them, and said: "Will you not eat?"
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(When he saw that they did not eat) he became apprehensive of them. They said: "Do not be apprehensive!" They gave him the glad tidings of (the birth of) a son to be endowed with profound knowledge.
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Then his wife came forward, groaning, and struck her forehead, saying: "How shall I bear a child, (being) a barren old woman?"
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They said: "Thus has your Lord decreed. Surely He is the All-Wise, the All-Knowing."
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