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[1] The Sure Reality!
[2] What is the Sure Reality?
[3] And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?
[4] The Thamud and the 'Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!
[5] But the Thamud,- they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!
[6] And the 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious Wind, exceedingly violent;
[7] He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession: so that thou couldst see the (whole) people lying prostrate in its (path), as they had been roots of hollow palm-trees tumbled down!
[8] Then seest thou any of them left surviving?
[9] And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.
[10] And disobeyed (each) the messenger of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.
[11] We, when the water (of Noah's Flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating (Ark),
[12] That We might make it a Message unto you, and that ears (that should hear the tale and) retain its memory should bear its (lessons) in remembrance.
[13] Then, when one blast is sounded on the Trumpet,
[14] And the earth is moved, and its mountains, and they are crushed to powder at one stroke,-
[15] On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass.
[16] And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,
[17] And the angels will be on its sides, and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord above them.
[18] That Day shall ye be brought to Judgment: not an act of yours that ye hide will be hidden.
[19] Then he that will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Ah here! Read ye my Record!
[20] "I did really understand that my Account would (One Day) reach me!"
[21] And he will be in a life of Bliss,
[22] In a Garden on high,
[23] The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.
[24] "Eat ye and drink ye, with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you, in the days that are gone!"
[25] And he that will be given his Record in his left hand, will say: "Ah! Would that my Record had not been given to me!
[26] "And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!
[27] "Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!
[28] "Of no profit to me has been my wealth!
[29] "My power has perished from me!"...
[30] (The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,
[31] "And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.
[32] "Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!
[33] "This was he that would not believe in Allah Most High.
[34] "And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!
[35] "So no friend hath he here this Day.
[36] "Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,
[37] "Which none do eat but those in sin."
[38] So I do call to witness what ye see,
[39] And what ye see not,
[40] That this is verily the word of an honoured messenger;
[41] It is not the word of a poet: little it is ye believe!
[42] Nor is it the word of a soothsayer: little admonition it is ye receive.
[43] (This is) a Message sent down from the Lord of the Worlds.
[44] And if the messenger were to invent any sayings in Our name,
[45] We should certainly seize him by his right hand,
[46] And We should certainly then cut off the artery of his heart:
[47] Nor could any of you withhold him (from Our wrath).
[48] But verily this is a Message for the Allah-fearing.
[49] And We certainly know that there are amongst you those that reject (it).
[50] But truly (Revelation) is a cause of sorrow for the Unbelievers.
[51] But verily it is Truth of assured certainty.
[52] So glorify the name of thy Lord Most High.