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What is the Inevitable?
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How will you know what the Inevitable is?
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Thamood and ’Ad denied [the Day of] Calamity.
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For that [sin] Thamood was destroyed by a thunderbolt
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and ’Ad was crushed by a roaring windstorm.
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[God] let it rage against them seven nights and eight days in a row. You could have seen people felled like hollow trunks of palm-trees.
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Can you see now a single survivor?
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Pharaoh, his predecessors, and the smitten [cities] have all indulged in sinning.
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They disobeyed their Lord’s Messengers, and [God] seized them in a mighty grip. II. Eschatology and Apocalypsis
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When the flood came, We carried you all in the ark.
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Let it be a Warning to you and let a hearing ear hear it!
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When a single blast is blown on the trumpet,
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when the earth and the mountains move and are smashed in one stroke,
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then, on that Day, the Event shall occur!
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On that Day the sky, turning brittle, shall split.
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On that Day the Angels [will stand] at its edges, and eight [of them] will carry God’s Throne above them.
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On that Day you shall be brought to Judgment and everything you used to hide shall be on display.
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The one who receives his Book in his right hand shall say: “Here it is, read my Book!
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Indeed, I knew that I’ll face my account!”
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And he shall live in bliss
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with fruit within reach:
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— Eat and drink to your health for what you have prepared in the past days!
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But the one who receives his Book in his left hand shall say: “Oh! I wish I wouldn’t receive such a Book
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and wouldn’t know my account!
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Oh! If only my end came soon!
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Wealth has not protected me,
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and all my power has vanished!”
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