al-Ṭūr

By the Mount [Sinai],

— Ali Quli Qarai

by the Book inscribed

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on an unrolled parchment;

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by the House greatly frequented;

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by the vault raised high,

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by the surging sea:

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indeed your Lord’s punishment will surely befall.

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There is none who can avert it.

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On the day when the sky whirls violently,

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and the mountains move with an awful motion:

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woe to the deniers on that day

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—those who play around in vain talk,

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the day when they will be shoved forcibly toward the fire of hell, [and told:]

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‘This is the Fire which you used to deny!

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Is this, then, [also] magic, or is it you who do not perceive?

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Enter it, and it will be the same for you whether you are patient or impatient. You are only being requited for what you used to do.’

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Indeed the Godwary will be amid gardens and bliss,

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rejoicing because of what their Lord has given them, and that their Lord has saved them from the punishment of hell.

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[They will be told:] ‘Enjoy your food and drink, [as a reward] for what you used to do.’

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They will be reclining on arrayed couches, and We will wed them to big-eyed houris.

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The faithful and their descendants who followed them in faith—We will make their descendants join them, and We will not stint anything from [the reward of] their deeds. Every person is hostage to what he has earned.

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We will provide them with fruits and meat, such as they desire.

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There they will pass from hand to hand a cup wherein there will be neither any vain talk nor sinful speech.

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They will be waited upon by their youths, as if they were guarded pearls.

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They will turn to one another, questioning each other.

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They will say, ‘Indeed, aforetime, we used to be apprehensive about our families.

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But Allah showed us favour and He saved us from the punishment of the [infernal] miasma.

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We used to supplicate Him aforetime. Indeed He is the All-benign, the All-merciful.’

— Ali Quli Qarai

So admonish. By your Lord’s blessing, you are not a soothsayer, nor mad.

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Do they say, ‘[He is] a poet, for whom we await a fatal accident’?

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Say, ‘Wait! I too am waiting along with you.’

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Is it their intellect which prompts them to [say] this, or are they a rebellious lot?

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Do they say, ‘He has improvised it [himself]?’ Rather, they have no faith!

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Let them bring a discourse like it, if they are truthful.

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Were they created from nothing? Or are they [their own] creators?

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Did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they have no certainty!

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Do they possess the treasuries of your Lord? Or do they control [them]?

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Do they have a ladder [leading up to heaven] whereby they eavesdrop? If so, let their eavesdropper produce a manifest authority.

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Does He have daughters while you have sons?

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Do you ask them for a reward, so that they are [wary of] being weighed down with debt?

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Do they have [access to] the Unseen, which they write down?

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Do they seek to outmaneuver [Allah]? But it is the faithless who are the outmaneuvered ones!

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Do they have any god other than Allah? Clear is Allah of any partners that they may ascribe [to Him]!

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Were they to see a fragment falling from the sky, they would say, ‘A cumulous cloud.’

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So leave them until they encounter the day when they will be thunderstruck,

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the day when their guile will not avail them in any way, nor will they be helped.

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Indeed there is a punishment besides that for those who do wrong, but most of them do not know.

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So submit patiently to the judgement of your Lord, for indeed you fare before Our eyes. And celebrate the praise of your Lord when you rise [at dawn],

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and also glorify Him during the night and at the receding of the stars.

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