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Qaf. CONSIDER this sublime Qur’an!
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But nay - they deem it strange that a warner should have come unto them from their own midst; and so these deniers of the truth are saying, “A strange thing is this!
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Why - (how could we be resurrected) after we have died and become mere dust? Such a return seems far-fetched indeed!”
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Well do We know how the earth consumes their bodies, for with Us is a record unfailing.
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Nay, but they (who refuse to believe in resurrection) have been wont to give the lie to this truth whenever it was proffered to them; and so they are in a state of confusion.
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Do they not look at the sky above them - how We have built it and made it beautiful and free of all faults?
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And the earth - We have spread it wide, and set upon it mountains firm, and caused it to bring forth plants of all beauteous kinds,
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thus offering an insight and a reminder unto every human being who willingly turns unto God.
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And We send down from the skies water rich in blessings, and cause thereby gardens to grow, and fields of grain,
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and tall palm-trees with their thickly-clustered dates,
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as sustenance apportioned to men; and by (all) this We bring dead land to life: (and) even so will be (man’s) coming-forth from death.
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(Long) before those (who now deny resurrection) did Noah’s people give the lie to this truth, and (so did) the folk of Ar-Rass, and (the tribes of) Thamud
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and Ad, and Pharaoh, and Lot’s brethren,
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and the dwellers of the wooded dales (of Madyan), and the people of Tubba: they all gave the lie to the apostles - and thereupon that whereof I had warned (them) came true.
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Could We, then, be (thought of as being) worn out by the first creation? Nay - but some people are (still) lost in doubt about (the possibility of) a new creation!
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NOW, VERILY, it is We who have created man, and We know what his innermost self whispers within him: for We are closer to him than his neck-vein.
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(And so,) whenever the two demands (of his nature) come face to face, contending from the right and from the left,
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not even a word can he utter but there is a watcher with him, ever-present.
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And (then,) the twilight of death brings with it the (full) truth that (very thing, O man,) from which thou wouldst always look away! –
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and (in the end) the trumpet (of resurrection) will be blown: that will be the Day of a warning fulfilled.
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And every human being will come forward with (his erstwhile) inner urges and (his) conscious mind,
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(and will be told:) “Indeed, unmindful hast thou been of this (Day of Judgment); but now We have lifted from thee thy veil, and sharp is thy sight today!”
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And one part of him will say: “This it is that has been ever-present with me!”
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(Whereupon God will command:) “Cast, cast into hell every (such) stubborn enemy of the truth,
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(every) withholder of good (and) sinful aggressor (and) fomentor of distrust (between man and man – everyone)
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who has set up another deity beside God: cast him, then, cast him into suffering severe!”
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Man’s other self’ will say: “O our Sustainer! It was not I that led his conscious mind into evil (nay,) but it had gone far astray (of its own accord)!
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(And) He will say: “Contend not before Me, (O you sinners,) for I gave you a forewarning (of this Day of Reckoning).
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The judgment passed by Me shall not be altered; but never do I do the least wrong unto My creatures!”
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On that Day We will ask hell, “Art thou filled?”- and it will answer, “(Nay,) is there yet more (for me)?”
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