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A questioner asked about the chastisement which must befall
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The unbelievers, which none can avert,
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From Allah, the Lord of the Ascending Stairways.
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To Him ascend the angels and the Spirit in a Day the measure of which is fifty thousand years.
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Therefore endure with a goodly patience.
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Surely they think it to be far off,
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On the day when the heaven shall be as molten copper
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And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool
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And friend shall not ask of friend
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Though they shall be given sight of each other. The guilty one would fain redeem himself from the chastisement of that day by sacrificing his children,
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And his wife and his brother
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And the nearest of his kinsfolk who gave him shelter,
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And all those that are in the earth, hoping to be delivered.
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By no means! Surely it is a flaming Fire
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Dragging him right to his skull,
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It calls him who turned and fled from truth,
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And amasses wealth then locks it up.
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Surely man is created anxious (or impatient)
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Fretful when evil afflicts him
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And niggardly when good befalls him
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Except those who pray -
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Those who are constant (or devoted) at their prayer
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And those in whose wealth there is a fixed portion
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For him who begs and for him who is destitute
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And those who accept the truth of the Day of Judgment
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And those who are fearful of the displeasure of their Lord, -
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Surely the displeasure of their Lord is a thing before which none can feel secure (or is the opposite of peace and tranquillity) -
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And those who guard their chastity,
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Except in the case of their wives or those whom their right hands possess - for on these surely is no blame,
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