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44. Ad-Dukhan - The Drought
| 1 | Ha Mim |
| 2 | By the Clear Book. |
| 3 | We have sent it down in a blessed night (We are ever warning) |
| 4 | therein every wise bidding |
| 5 | determined as a bidding from Us, (We are ever sending) |
| 6 | as a mercy from thy Lord (surely He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing) |
| 7 | Lord of the heavens and earth, and all that between them is if you have faith. |
| 8 | There is no god but He; He gives life and makes to die; your Lord and the Lord of your fathers, the ancients. |
| 9 | Nay, but they are in doubt, playing. |
| 10 | So be on the watch for a day when heaven shall bring a manifest smoke |
| 11 | covering the people; this is a painful chastisement. |
| 12 | 'O our Lord, remove Thou from us the chastisement; we are believers.' |
| 13 | How should they have the Reminder, seeing a clear Messenger already came to them, |
| 14 | then they turned away from him and said, 'A man tutored, possessed!' |
| 15 | 'Behold, We are removing the chastisement a little; behold, you revert!' |
| 16 | Upon the day when We shall assault most mightily, then We shall take Our vengeance. |
| 17 | Already before them We tried the people of Pharaoh, and a noble Messenger came unto them, |
| 18 | saying, 'Deliver to me God's servants; I am for you a faithful Messenger, |
| 19 | and, 'Rise not up against God; behold, I come to you with a clear authority, |
| 20 | and I take refuge in my Lord and your Lord, lest you should stone me. |
| 21 | 'But if so be that you believe me not, go you apart from me!' |
| 22 | And he called to his Lord, saying, 'These are a sinful people.' |
| 23 | 'Then set thou forth with My servants in a watch of the night; surely you will be followed. |
| 24 | And leave the sea becalmed; they are a drowned host.' |
| 25 | They left how many gardens and fountains, |
| 26 | sown fields, and how noble a station, |
| 27 | and what prosperity they had rejoiced in! |
| 28 | Even so; and We bequeathed them upon another people. |
| 29 | Neither heaven nor earth wept for them, nor were they respited; |
| 30 | and We delivered the Children of Israel from the humbling chastisement, |
| 31 | from Pharaoh; surely he was a high One, of the prodigals; |
| 32 | and We chose them, out of a knowledge, above all beings, |
| 33 | and gave them signs wherein there was a manifest trial. |
| 34 | These men do say, |
| 35 | 'There is nothing but our first death; we shall not be revived. |
| 36 | Bring us our fathers, if you speak truly!' |
| 37 | Are they better, or the people of Tubba' and those before them whom We destroyed? They were surely sinners. |
| 38 | We created not the heavens and earth, and all that between them is, in play; |
| 39 | We created them not save in truth; but most of them know it not. |
| 40 | Surely the Day of Decision shall be their appointed time, all together, |
| 41 | the day a master shall avail nothing a client, and they shall not be helped, |
| 42 | save him upon whom God has mercy; He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate. |
| 43 | Lo, the Tree of Ez-Zakkoum |
| 44 | is the food of the guilty, |
| 45 | like molten copper, bubbling in the belly |
| 46 | as boiling water bubbles. |
| 47 | 'Take him, and thrust him into the midst of Hell, |
| 48 | then pour over his head the chastisement of boiling water!' |
| 49 | 'Taste! Surely thou art the mighty, the noble. |
| 50 | This is that concerning which you were doubting.' |
| 51 | Surely the godfearing shall be in a station secure |
| 52 | among gardens and fountains, |
| 53 | robed in silk and brocade, set face to face. |
| 54 | Even so; and We shall espouse them to wide-eyed houris, |
| 55 | therein calling for every fruit, secure. |
| 56 | They shall not taste therein of death, save the first death, And He shall guard them against the chastisement of Hell -- |
| 57 | a bounty from thy Lord; that is the mighty triumph. |
| 58 | Now We have made it easy by thy tongue, that haply they may remember. |
| 59 | So be on the watch; they too are on the watch. |