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A questioner may question the inevitable retribution.
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For the disbelievers, none can stop it.
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From GOD; Possessor of the highest Height.
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The angels, with their reports, climb to Him in a day that equals fifty thousand years.
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Therefore, you shall resort to a gracious patience.
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For they see it far away.
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While we see it very close.
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The day will come when the sky will be like molten rocks.
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The mountains will be like fluffy wool.
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No friend will care about his close friend.
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When they see them, the guilty will wish he could give his own children as ransom, to spare him the retribution of that day.
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Also his spouse, and his brother.
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Even his whole tribe that raised him.
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Even all the people on earth, if it would save him.
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No; it is aflame.
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It calls on those who turned away.
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Those who hoarded and counted.
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Indeed, the human being is anxious.
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If touched by adversity, despondent.
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If blessed by wealth, stingy.
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Except for the worshipers.
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Who always observe their contact prayers (Salat).
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Part of their money is set aside.
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For the poor and the needy.
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They believe in the Day of Judgment.
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They reverence their Lord's requital.
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Their Lord's requital is not taken for granted.
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They keep their chastity.
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(They have relations) only with their spouses, or what is legally theirs—
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anyone who transgresses these limits is a sinner—
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And the believers keep their word; they are trustworthy.
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Their testimony is truthful.
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They consistently observe their contact prayers (Salat), on time.
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They have deserved a position of honor, in Paradise.
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What is keeping those who disbelieved from joining you?
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To the right, and to the left, they flee.
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How can any of them expect to enter the blissful Paradise?
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Never; we created them, and they know from what.
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I solemnly swear by the Lord of the easts and the wests; we are able—
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to substitute better people in your place; we can never be defeated.
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Therefore, let them blunder and play, until they meet the day that is awaiting them.
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That is the day they come out of the graves in a hurry, as if herded to the (sacrificial) altars.
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With their eyes subdued, shame will cover them. That is the day that is awaiting them.