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OH, THE LAYING-BARE of the truth!
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How awesome that laying-bare of the truth!
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And what could make thee conceive what that laying-bare of the truth will be?
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THE LIE gave (the tribes of) Thamud and ‘Ad to (all tidings of) that sudden calamity!
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Now as for the Thamud - they were destroyed by a violent upheaval (of the earth);
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and as for the ‘Ad - they were destroyed by a storm wind furiously raging,
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which He willed against them for seven nights and eight days without cease, so that in the end thou couldst see those people laid low (in death), as though they were so many (uprooted) trunks of hollow palm trees:
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and dost thou now see any remnant of them?
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And there was Pharaoh, too, and (many of) those who lived before him, and the cities that were overthrown - (all of them) indulged in sin upon sin
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and rebelled against their Sustainer's apostles: and so He took them to task with a punishing grasp exceedingly severe!
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(And) behold: when the waters (of Noah's flood) burst beyond all limits, it was We who caused you to be borne (to safety) in that floating ark,
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so that We might make all this a (lasting) reminder to you all, and that every wide-awake ear might consciously take it in.
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Hence, (bethink yourselves of the Last Hour,) when the trumpet (of judgment) shall be sounded with a single blast,
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and the earth and the mountains shall be lifted up and crushed with a single stroke!
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And so, that which must come to pass will on that day have come to pass;
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and the sky will be rent asunder - for, frail will it have become on that Day - ;
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and the angels (will appear) at its ends, and, above them, eight will bear aloft on that Day the throne of thy Sustainer’s almightiness…
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On that Day you shall be brought to judgment: not (even) the most hidden of your deeds will remain hidden.
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Now as for him whose record shall be placed in his right hand, he will exclaim: "Come you all!" Read this my record!
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Behold, I did know that (one day) I would have to face my account!
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And so he will find himself in a happy state of life,
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with its fruits within easy reach.
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(And all who are thus blest will be told:) "Eat and drink with good cheer in return for all (the good deeds) that you have sent ahead in days gone by!"
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But as for him whose record shall be placed in his left hand, he will exclaim: "Oh, would that I had never been shown this my record,
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and neither known this my account!
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Oh, would that this (death of mine) had been the end of me!
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Of no avail to me is all that I have (ever) possessed,
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(and) all my power of argument has died away from me!"
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Thereupon the command will go forth:) "Lay hold of him, and shackle him,
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