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[1] By those who drag forth to destruction,
[2] By the meteors rushing,
[3] By the lone stars floating,
[4] By the angels hastening,
[5] And those who govern the event,
[6] On the day when the first trump resoundeth.
[7] And the second followeth it,
[8] On that day hearts beat painfully
[9] While eyes are downcast
[10] (Now) they are saying: Shall we really be restored to our first state
[11] Even after we are crumbled bones?
[12] They say: Then that would be a vain proceeding.
[13] Surely it will need but one shout,
[14] And lo! they will be awakened.
[15] Hath there come unto thee the history of Moses?
[16] How his Lord called him in the holy vale of Tuwa,
[17] (Saying:) Go thou unto Pharaoh - Lo! he hath rebelled -
[18] And say (unto him): Hast thou (will) to grow (in grace)?
[19] Then I will guide thee to thy Lord and thou shalt fear (Him).
[20] And he showed him the tremendous token.
[21] But he denied and disobeyed,
[22] Then turned he away in haste,
[23] Then gathered he and summoned
[24] And proclaimed: "I (Pharaoh) am your Lord the Highest."
[25] So Allah seized him (and made him) an example for the after (life) and for the former.
[26] Lo! herein is indeed a lesson for him who feareth.
[27] Are ye the harder to create, or is the heaven that He built?
[28] He raised the height thereof and ordered it;
[29] And He made dark the night thereof, and He brought forth the morn thereof.
[30] And after that He spread the earth,
[31] And produced therefrom the water thereof and the pasture thereof,
[32] And He made fast the hills,
[33] A provision for you and for your cattle.
[34] But when the great disaster cometh,
[35] The day when man will call to mind his (whole) endeavour,
[36] And hell will stand forth visible to him who seeth,
[37] Then, as for him who rebelled
[38] And chose the life of the world,
[39] Lo! hell will be his home.
[40] But as for him who feared to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from lust,
[41] Lo! the Garden will be his home.
[42] They ask thee of the Hour: when will it come to port?
[43] Why (ask they)? What hast thou to tell thereof?
[44] Unto thy Lord belongeth (knowledge of) the term thereof.
[45] Thou art but a warner unto him who feareth it.
[46] On the day when they behold it, it will be as if they had but tarried for an evening or the morn thereof.