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44. "The Evident Smoke"
  
     
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 Ha. Mim.  
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 By the Scripture that maketh plain
 
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 Behold! We revealed it on a blessed night - Behold! We are ever warning -
 
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 Whereon every wise command is made clear
 
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 As a command from Our presence - Behold! We are ever sending -
 
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 A mercy from thy Lord. Behold! He, even He is the Hearer, the Knower,
 
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 Lord of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, if you would be sure.
 
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 There is no God except Him. He quickens and gives death; your Lord and Lord of your forefathers.
 
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 No, but they play in doubt.
 
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 But watch you O Messenger for the day when the sky will produce visible smoke
 
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 That will envelop the people. This will be a painful torment.
 
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 Then they will say: Our Lord relieve us of the torment. Behold! we are believers.
 
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 How can there be remembrance for them, when a messenger making plain the Truth had already come unto them,
 
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 And they had turned away from him and said: One taught by others, a madman?
 
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 Behold! We withdraw the torment a little. Behold! you return to disbelief.
 
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 On the day when We shall seize them with the greater seizure, then in truth We shall punish.
 
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 And truly The Lord tried before them Pharaoh's people, when there came unto them a noble messenger,
 
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 Saying: Give up to me the slaves of Allah. Behold! I am a faithful messenger unto you.
 
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 And saying: Be not proud against Allah. Behold! I bring you a clear warrant.
 
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 And Lo and Behold! I have sought refuge in my Lord and your Lord lest you stone me to death.
 
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 And if you put no faith in me, then let me go.
 
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 And he cried unto his Lord, saying: These are guilty people.
 
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 Then his Lord commanded: Take away My slaves by night. Behold! you will be followed,
 
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 And leave the sea behind at rest, for Lo and Behold! they are a drowned host.
 
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 How many were the gardens and the watersprings that they left behind,
 
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 And the cornlands and the goodly sites
 
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 And pleasant things wherein they took delight!
 
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 Even so it was, and We made it an inheritance for other people;
 
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 And the heaven and the earth wept not for them, nor were they reprieved.
 
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 And We delivered the Children of Israel from the shameful doom;
 
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 We delivered them from Pharaoh. Behold! he was a tyrant of the wanton ones.
 
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 And We chose them, purposely, above all creatures.
 
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 And We gave them omens wherein was a clear trial.
 
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 Behold! these, forsooth, are saying:
 
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 There is nothing but our first death, and we shall not be raised again.
 
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 Bring back our fathers, if you speak the truth!
 
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 Are they better, or the people of Tubb'a and those before them? We destroyed them, for surely they were guilty.
 
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 And We created not the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, in play.
 
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 We created them not except with truth; but most of them know not.
 
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 Assuredly the Day of Decision is the term for all of them,
 
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 A day when friend can in nothing avail friend, nor can they be helped,
 
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 Save him on whom Allah has mercy. Behold! He is the Mighty, the Merciful.
 
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 Behold! the tree of Zaqqum,
 
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 The food of the sinner!
 
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 Like molten brass, it seetheth in their bellies
 
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 As the seething of boiling water.
 
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 And it will be said: Take him and drag him to the midst of their hell,
 
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 Of pain and anguish like the torment of boiling water.
 
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 Saying: Taste! Behold! you wast forsooth the mighty, the noble!
 
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 Behold! this is that of which you used to doubt.
 
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 Behold! those who kept their duty will be in a place secured that is One Heaven!
 
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 Amid gardens and watersprings,
 
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 Attired in silk and silk embroidery, facing one another.
 
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 Even so it will be. And they shall be with their friends, their family and loved ones.
 
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 They call therein for every fruit in safety.
 
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 They taste not death therein, except the first death. And He has saved them from the doom of the hell of self- delusion,
 
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 A bounty from thy Lord. That is the supreme triumph.
 
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 And We have made this Scripture easy in thy language only that they may heed.
 
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 Wait then O Messenger. Behold! they too are waiting.
  
   
 
 

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