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The incontestable (event).
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What an incontestable (event)!
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It is truly incontestable.
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Thamûd and 'Ãd disbelieved in the Shocker.
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As for Thamûd, they were annihilated by the devastating (quake).
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As for 'Ãd, they were annihilated by a persistent, violent storm.
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He unleashed it upon them for seven nights and eight days, violently. You could see the people tossed around like decayed palm trunks.
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Can you find any trace of them?
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Pharaoh, others before him, and the sinners (of Sodom) were wicked.
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They disobeyed the messenger of their Lord. Consequently, He requited them a devastating requital.
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The flood was devastating, so we carried you on the floating (ark).
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We rendered it a lesson for you, that any listening ear may understand.
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When the horn is blown once.
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The earth and the mountains will be carried off and crushed; utterly crushed.
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That is the day when the inevitable event will come to pass.
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The heaven will crack, and fall apart.
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The angels will be all around, and Your Lord's dominion will then encompass eight (universes).*
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On that day, you will be exposed, nothing of you can be hidden.
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As for the one who receives his record with his right hand, he will say, "Come read my record.
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"I did believe that I was going to be held accountable."
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He has deserved a happy life.
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In an exalted Paradise.
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Its fruits are within reach.
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Eat and drink happily in return for your works in days past.
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As for him who is given his record in his left hand, he will say, "Oh, I wish I never received my record.
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"I wish I never knew my account.
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"I wish my death was eternal.
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"My money cannot help me.
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"All my power is gone."
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Take him and shackle him.
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Burn him in Hell.
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In a chain that is seventy arms long, tie him up.
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For he did not believe in GOD, Most Great.
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Nor did he advocate the feeding of the poor.
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Consequently, he has no friend here.
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Nor any food, except the bitter variety.
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Food for the sinners.
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I swear by what you see.
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And what you do not see.
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This is the utterance of an honorable messenger.
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Not the utterance of a poet; rarely do you believe.
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Nor the utterance of a soothsayer; rarely do you take heed.
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A revelation from the Lord of the universe.
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Had he uttered any other teachings.
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We would have punished him.
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We would have stopped the revelations to him.
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None of you could have helped him.
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This is a reminder for the righteous.
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We know; some of you are rejectors.
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It is but sorrow for the disbelievers.
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It is the absolute truth.
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Therefore, you shall glorify the name of your Lord, Most Great.