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51. "The Scatterers"
  
     
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 By those that winnow with a winnowing
 
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 And those that bear the burden of the rain
 
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 And those that glide with ease upon the sea
 
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 And those who distribute blessings by command,
 
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 Behold! that wherewith you are threatened is indeed true,
 
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 And Lo and Behold! the judgment will indeed befall.
 
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 By the heaven full of paths,
 
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 Behold! you, forsooth, are of various opinion concerning the truth.
 
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 He is made to turn away from it who is himself averse.
 
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 Judged firmly be the conjecturers
 
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 Who are careless in an abyss!
 
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 They ask: When is the Day of Judgment?  
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 It is the day when they will be tormented at the Fire,
 
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 And it will be said unto them: Taste your torment which you inflicted. This is what you sought to hasten.
 
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 Behold! those who keep from evil will dwell amid gardens and watersprings,
 
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 Taking that which their Lord gives them; for Lo and Behold! aforetime they were doers of good;
 
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 They used to sleep but little of the night,
 
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 And ere the dawning of each day would seek forgiveness,
 
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 And in their wealth the beggar and the outcast had due share.
 
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 And in the earth are omens for those whose faith is sure.
 
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 And also in yourselves. Can you then not see?
 
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 And in the heaven is your providence and that which you are promised;
 
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 And by the Lord of the heavens and the earth, it is the truth, even as it is true that you speak.
 
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 Has the story of the honoured guests of King AB-RA-MU (Abraham) of Ebla reached you O Messenger?
 
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 When they came in unto him and said: Peace! he answered, Peace! and thought: Folk unknown to me.
 
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 Then he went apart unto his housepeople so that they brought a fatted calf;
 
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 And he set it before them, saying: Will you not eat?
 
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 Then he conceived a fear of them. They said: Fear not! and gave him tidings of the birth of a wise son.
 
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 Then his wife came forward, making moan, and smote her face, and cried: A barren old woman!
 
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 They said: Even so says thy Lord. Behold! He is the Wise, the Knower.
 
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 Abraham said: And afterward what is your errand, O you sent from Allah?
 
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 They said: Behold! we are sent unto a guilty people,
 
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 That we may send upon them stones of clay,
 
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 Marked by thy Lord for the destruction of the wanton.
 
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 Then we brought forth such believers as were there.
 
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 But We found there but one house of those surrendered to Allah.
 
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 And We left behind therein an omen for those who fear a painful afterlife of regret.
 
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 And in Moses too, there is an omen when We sent him unto Pharaoh with clear warrant,
 
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 But he withdrew confiding in his might, and said: A wizard or a madman.
 
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 So We seized him and his hosts and flung them in the sea, for he was reprobate.
 
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 And in the tribe of A'ad there is an omen when we sent the fatal wind against them.
 
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 It spared nothing that it reached, but made it all as dust.
 
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 And in the tribe of Thamud there is an omen when it was told them: Take your ease awhile.
 
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 But they rebelled against their Lord's decree, and so the thunderbolt overtook them even while they gazed;
 
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 And they were unable to rise up, nor could they help themselves.
 
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 And the people of Noah aforetime. Behold! they were licentious people.
 
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 We have built the heaven with might, and We it is Who make the vast extent thereof.
 
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 And the earth have We laid out, how gracious is the Spreader thereof!
 
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 And all things We have created by pairs, that haply you may reflect.
 
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 Therefore flee unto Allah; Lo and Behold! I am a plain warner unto you from him.
 
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 And set not any other god along with Allah; Lo and Behold! I am a plain warner unto you from Him.
 
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 Even so there came no messenger unto those before them but they said: A wizard or a madman!
 
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 Have they handed down the saying as an heirloom one unto another? No, but they are forward people.
 
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 So withdraw from them O Messenger, for you are in no wise blameworthy,
 
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 And warn, for warning profits believers.
 
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 I created the spirits and humanity only that they might worship Me.
 
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 I seek no livelihood from them, nor do I ask that they should feed Me.
 
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 Behold! Allah! It is He that gives livelihood, the Lord of unbreakable might.
 
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 And Lo and Behold! for those who now do wrong there is an evil day like unto the evil day which came for their likes of old; so let them not ask Me to hasten on that day.
 
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 And woe unto those who disbelieve, from that their day which they are promised.
 
   
 
 

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