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[1] CONSIDER the daybreak
[2] and the ten nights!
[3] Consider the multiple and the One!
[4] Consider the night as it runs its course!
[5] Considering all this - could there be, to anyone endowed with reason, a [more] solemn evidence of the truth?
[6] ART THOU NOT aware of how thy Sustainer has dealt with [the tribe of] ‘Ad,
[7] [the people of] Iram the many-pillared,
[8] the like of whom has never been reared in all the land? –
[9] and with [the tribe of] Thamud, who hollowed out rocks in the valley? –
[10] and with Pharaoh of the [many] tent-poles?
[11] [It was they] who transgressed all bounds of equity all over their lands,
[12] and brought about great corruption therein:
[13] and therefore thy Sustainer let loose upon them a scourge of suffering:
[14] for, verily, thy Sustainer is ever on the watch!
[15] BUT AS FOR man, whenever his Sustainer tries him by His generosity and by letting him enjoy a life of ease, he says, "My Sustainer has been [justly] generous towards me";
[16] whereas, whenever He tries him by straitening his means of livelihood, he says, "My Sustainer has disgraced me!"
[17] But nay, nay, [O men, consider all that you do and fail to do:] you are not generous towards the orphan,
[18] and you do not urge one another to feed the needy,
[19] and you devour the inheritance [of others] with devouring greed,
[20] and you love wealth with boundless love!
[21] Nay, but [how will you fare on Judgment Day,] when the earth is crushed with crushing upon crushing,
[22] and [the majesty of] thy Sustainer stands revealed, as well as [the true nature of] the angels; rank upon rank?
[23] And on that Day hell will be brought [within sight]; on that Day man will remember [all that he did and failed to do]: but what will that remembrance avail him?
[24] He will say, "Oh, would that I had. provided beforehand for my life [to come]!"
[25] For, none can make suffer as He will make suffer [the sinners] on that Day,
[26] and none can bind with bonds like His.
[27] [But unto the righteous God will say,] "O thou human being that hast attained to inner peace!
[28] Return thou unto thy Sustainer, well-pleased [and] pleasing [Him]:
[29] enter, then, together with My [other true] servants –
[30] yea, enter thou My paradise!"