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Asad, Surah 79: Those who drag forth (An-Naazi'aat)

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[1] CONSIDER those [stars] that rise only to set,

[2] and move [in their orbits] with steady motion,

[3] and float [through space] with floating serene,

[4] and yet overtake [one another] with swift overtaking:

[5] and thus they fulfil the [Creator's] behest!

[6] [HENCE, think of] the Day when a violent convulsion will convulse [the world],

[7] to be followed by further [convulsions]!

[8] On that Day will [men's] hearts be throbbing,

[9] [and] their eyes downcast...

[10] [And yet,] some say, "What! Are we indeed to be restored to our former state –

[11] even though we may have become [a heap of] crumbling bones?"

[12] [And] they add, "That, then, would be a return with loss!"

[13] [But,] then, that [Last Hour] will be [upon them of a sudden, as if it were] but a single accusing cry -

[14] and then, lo, they will be fully awakened [to the truth]!

[15] HAS THE STORY of Moses ever come within thy ken.

[16] Lo! His Sustainer called out to him in the twice-hallowed valley:

[17] "Go unto Pharaoh - for, verily, he has transgressed all bounds of what is right -

[18] and say [unto him], 'Art thou desirous of attaining to purity?

[19] [If so,] then I shall guide thee towards [a cognition of] thy Sustainer, so that [henceforth] thou wilt stand in awe [of Him].’"

[20] And thereupon he [went to Pharaoh and] made him aware of the great wonder [of God's grace].

[21] But [Pharaoh] gave him the lie and rebelliously rejected [all guidance],

[22] and brusquely turned his back [on Moses];

[23] and then he gathered [his great ones], and called [unto his people],

[24] and said, "I am your Lord All-Highest!"

[25] And thereupon God took him to task, [and made him] a warning example in the life to come as well as in this world.

[26] In this, behold, there is a lesson indeed for all who stand in awe [of God].

[27] [O MEN!] Are you more difficult to create than the heaven which He has built?

[28] High has He reared its vault and formed it in accordance with what it was meant to be;

[29] and He has made dark its night and brought forth its light of day.

[30] And after that, the earth: wide has He spread its expanse,

[31] and has caused its waters to come out of it, and its pastures,

[32] and has made the mountains firm:

[33] [all this] as a means of livelihood for you and your animals.

[34] AND SO, when the great overwhelming event [of, resurrection] comes to pass –

[35] on that Day man will [clearly] remember all that he has ever wrought;

[36] and the blazing fire [of hell] will be lad open before all who [are destined to] see it.

[37] For, unto him who shall have transgressed the bounds of what is right,

[38] and preferred the life of this world [to the good of his soul],

[39] that blazing fire will truly be the goal!

[40] But unto him who shall have stood in fear of his Sustainer's Presence, and held back his inner self from base desires,

[41] paradise will truly be the goal!

[42] THEY WILL ASK thee [O Prophet] about the Last Hour: "When will it come to pass?"

[43] [But] how couldst thou tell anything about it,

[44] [seeing that] with thy Sustainer alone rests the beginning and the end [of all knowledge] thereof?

[45] Thou art but [sent] to warn those who stand in awe of it.

[46] On the Day when they behold it, [it will seem to them] as if they had tarried [in this world] no longer than one evening or [one night, ending with] its morn!

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