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(It is) a revelation from the Mercy- giving, the Merciful,
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a Book whose verses have been spelled out, as an Arabic reading for folk who know,
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(sent down) as good news and a warning. Yet most of them avoid it and will not listen.
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They say: "Our hearts are (covered) with wrappers against what you invite us to; in our ears there (rings) a dullness while a curtain (hangs) between us and you. So act, for we (too) are acting!"
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SAY: "I am only human like yourselves. It has been revealed to me that your God is God Alone. So go straight towards Him and seek His forgiveness; how awful will it be for associators
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who pay no welfare tax while they disbelieve in the Hereafter!
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The ones who believe and perform honorable deeds will have payment which will never be withheld from them."
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(II) SAY: "How can you disbelieve in Someone Who created the earth in two days? You even set up rivals to Him!" Yet such is the Lord of the Universe!
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He has placed headlands towering above it and blessed (whatever is) on it, and measured out its types of nourishment for it in four seasons, equally (within reach) for those who ask for it.
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Then He soared up to Heaven while it was still a haze, and told both it and the earth: "Come, either obediently or reluctantly." They both said: "We shall come willingly!"
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He determined there should be seven heavens (constructed) within two days, and inspired its own order in each heaven. We have beautified the lowest heaven with lamps and a safeguard. Such is the design of the Powerful, the Aware!
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If they avoid it, then say: "I have warned you of a thunderbolt like 'Ad's and Thamud's thunderbolt."
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When messengers came at them from both before and behind them (saying): "Serve no one except God!", they said: "If our Lord had so wished, He would have sent angels down, so we are disbelievers concerning whatever you have been sent with."
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As for (the people of) 'Ad, they acted proudly on earth without any right (to do so), and they said: "Who is stronger than we are?" Did they not see that God, Who created them, is much Stronger than they were? They had disregarded Our signs.
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We sent a howling gale against them during some disastrous days, so We might let them taste the torment of humiliation during worldly life. Yet torment in the Hereafter will be even more humiliating, and they will never be supported.
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As for Thamud, We guided them too, yet they preferred blindness to guidance. (Another) thunderbolt seized them with shameful punishment because of what they had been earning.
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Yet We saved the ones who believed and had been doing their duty.
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(III) On the day when God's enemies are summoned to the Fire, they will be paraded forth
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So that when they come up to it, their hearing, eyesight and their skins will testify against them concerning anything they have been doing.
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They will say to their skins: "Why have you testified against us?" They will say: "God, Who grants speech to everything, has given us speech. He created you in the first place, and to Him are you returning.
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Even though you tried to disguise yourselves, lest your hearing, eyesight or your skins would still testify against you, did you suppose that God does not know so much about whatever you are doing?
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That supposition of yours which you conceived about your Lord has ruined you, so you have awakened among the losers."
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Even if they are patient, the Fire will still be a lodging for them, while if they want their case to be reviewed, they will not be granted any review;
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We have assigned them soulmates who have made anything that lies before them and anything behind them seem attractive to them. The Sentence has been confirmed against them just as it was with the nations of sprites and humankind who passed away before them. They have been the losers!
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(IV) Those who disbelieve will say: "Do not listen to this Reading, and chatter away while it is (being recited), so you will drown it out."
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We will let those who disbelieve taste severe torment; We will reward them for the worst which they have done.
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Such will be the reward for God's enemies: the Fire! They will find a home there for ever as a reward because they have repudiated Our signs.
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The ones who disbelieve will say: "Our Lord, show us which sprites and humans have misled us; we shall trample on both (types) of them with our feet so they will become underdogs."
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The ones who say: "Our Lord is God (Alone); "then keep straight on ahead, will have angels alight on them (saying): "Do not fear nor feel saddened, and rejoice in word about the Garden which you have been promised!
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