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O THOU (in thy solitude) enfolded!
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And thy Sustainer's greatness glorify!
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And thine inner self purify!
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And all defilement shun!
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And do not through giving seek thyself to gain,
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but unto thy Sustainer turn in patience.
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And (warn all men that) when the trumpet-call (of resurrection) is sounded,
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that very Day shall be a day of anguish,
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not of ease, for all who (now) deny the truth!
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LEAVE Me alone (to deal) with him whom I have created alone,
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and to whom I have granted resources vast,
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and children as (love's) witnesses,
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and to whose life I gave so wide a scope:
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and yet, he greedily desires that I give yet more!
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Nay, verily, it is against Our messages that he knowingly, stubbornly sets himself
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(and so) I shall constrain him to endure a painful uphill climb!
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Behold, (when Our messages are conveyed to one who is bent on denying the truth,) he reflects and meditates (as to how to disprove them) –
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and thus he destroys himself, the way he meditates:
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yea, he destroys himself, the way he meditates!
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and then he looks (around for new arguments),
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and then he frowns and glares,
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and in the end he turns his back (on Our message), and glories in his arrogance,
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and says, "All this is mere spellbinding eloquence handed down (from olden times)!
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This is nothing but the word of mortal man!"
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(Hence,) I shall cause him to endure hell-fire (in the life to come)!
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And what could make thee conceive what hell-fire is?
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It does not allow to live, and neither leaves (to die),
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making (all truth) visible to mortal man.
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Over it are nineteen (powers).
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