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[1] CONSIDER these [messages,] sent forth in waves
[2] and then storming on with a tempest's force!
[3] Consider these [messages] that spread [the truth] far and wide,
[4] thus separating [right and wrong] with all clarity,
[5] and then giving forth a reminder,
[6] [promising] freedom from blame or [offering] a warning!
[7] BEHOLD, all that you are told to expect will surely come to pass.
[8] Thus, [it will come to pass] when the stars are effaced,
[9] and when the sky is rent asunder,
[10] and when the mountains are scattered like dust,
[11] and when all the apostles are called together at a time appointed...
[12] For what day has the term [of all this] been set?
[13] For the Day of Distinction [between the true and the false]!
[14] And what could make thee conceive what that Day of Distinction will be?
[15] Woe on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth!
[16] Did We not destroy [so many of] those [sinners] of olden days?
[17] And We shall let them be followed by those of later times:
[18] [for] thus do We deal with such as are lost in sin.
[19] Woe on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth!
[20] Did We not create you out of a humble fluid
[21] which We then let remain in [the womb's] firm keeping
[22] for a term pre-ordained?
[23] Thus have We determined [the nature of man's creation]: and excellent indeed is Our power to determine [what is to be]!
[24] Woe, on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth!
[25] Have We not caused the earth to hold within itself
[26] the living and the dead?
[27] and have We not set on it proud, firm mountains, and given you sweet water to drink?
[28] Woe on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth!
[29] GO ON towards that [resurrection] which you were wont to call a lie!
[30] Go on towards the threefold shadow
[31] that will offer no [cooling] shade and will be of no avail against the flame
[32] which – behold!- will throw up sparks like [burning] logs,
[33] like giant fiery ropes!
[34] Woe on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth –
[35] that Day on which they will not [be able to] utter a word,
[36] nor be allowed to proffer excuses!
[37] Woe on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth –
[38] that Day of Distinction [between the true and the false, when they will be told]: "We have brought you together with those [sinners] of olden times;
[39] and if you [think that you] have a subterfuge left, try to outwit Me!"
[40] Woe on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth!
[41] [AS AGAINST this,] behold, the God-conscious shall dwell amidst [cooling] shades and springs,
[42] and [partake of] whatever fruit they may desire;
[43] [and they will be told:] "Eat and drink in good cheer in return for what you did [in life]!"
[44] Thus, behold, do We reward the doers of good;
[45] [but] woe on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth!
[46] EAT [your fill] and enjoy your life for a little while, O you who are lost in sin!
[47] [But] woe on that Day unto those who give the lie to the truth,
[48] and when they are told, "Bow down [before God]", do not bow down:
[49] woe on that Day unto those who give the to the truth!
[50] In what other tiding, then, will they, after this, believe?