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The Most Gracious.
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Teacher of the Quran.
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Creator of the human beings.
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He taught them how to distinguish.
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The sun and the moon are perfectly calculated.
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The stars and the trees prostrate.
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He constructed the sky and established the law.
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You shall not transgress the law.
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You shall establish justice; do not violate the law.
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He created the earth for all creatures.
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In it there are fruits, and date palms with their hanging fruit.*
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Also grains and the spices.
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(O humans and jinns,) which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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He created the human from aged clay, like the potter's clay.
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And created the jinns from blazing fire.
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(O humans and jinns,) which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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Lord of the two easts and the two wests.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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He separates the two seas where they meet.
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A barrier is placed between them, to prevent them from transgressing.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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Out of both of them you get pearls and coral.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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He gave you ships that roam the sea like flags.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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Everyone on earth perishes.
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Only the presence of your Lord lasts. Possessor of Majesty and Honor.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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Imploring Him is everyone in the heavens and the earth. Every day He is in full control.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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We will call you to account, O humans and jinns.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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O you jinns and humans, if you can penetrate the outer limits of the heavens and the earth, go ahead and penetrate. You cannot penetrate without authorization.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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You get bombarded with projectiles of fire and metal, and you cannot win.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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When the sky disintegrates, and turns rose colored like paint.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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On that day, no human, nor a jinn, will be asked about his sins.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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(This is because) the guilty will be recognized by their looks; they will be taken by the forelocks and the feet.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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This is Gehenna that the guilty used to deny.
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They will circulate between it and an intolerable inferno.*
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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For those who reverence the majesty of their Lord, two gardens (one for the jinns and one for the humans).
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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Full of provisions.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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Two springs are in them, flowing.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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Of every fruit in them, two kinds.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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While relaxing on furnishings lined with satin, the fruits are within reach.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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Their beautiful mates were never touched by any human or jinn.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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They look like gems and coral.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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Is the reward of goodness anything but goodness?
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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Below them are two gardens (one for the jinns and one for the humans).
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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In them, wells to be pumped.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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In them are fruits, date palms, and pomegranate.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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In them are beautiful mates.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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Confined in the tents.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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No human ever touched them, nor a jinn.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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They relax on green carpets, in beautiful surroundings.
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Which of your Lord's marvels can you deny?
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Most exalted is the name of your Lord, Possessor of Majesty and Honor.