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52. "The Mountain"
  
     
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 By the Mount,
 
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 And a Scripture inscribed
 
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 On fine parchment unrolled,
 
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 And the House frequented,
 
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 And the roof exalted,
 
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 And the sea kept filled,
 
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 Behold! the judgment of thy Lord will surely come to pass;
 
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 There is none that can ward it off.
 
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 On the day when the heaven will heave with awful heaving,
 
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 And the mountains move away with awful movement,
 
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 Then woe that day unto the deniers
 
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 Who play in talk of grave matters;
 
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 The day when they are thrust with a disdainful thrust, to be accountable for their actions.
 
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 And it is said unto them: This is the account for your actions which you were wont to deny.
 
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 Is this magic, or do you not see?
 
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 Endure the regret and anguish thereof, and whether you are patient of it or impatient of it is all one for you. Ye are only being paid for what you used to do.
 
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 Behold! those who kept their duty dwell in gardens and delight,
 
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 Happy because of what their Lord has given them, and because their Lord has warded off from them the self torment of a life of delusion and hate.
 
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 And it is said unto them: Eat and drink in health as a reward for what you used to do,
 
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 Reclining on ranged couches. And we wed them unto fair ones with wide, lovely eyes.
 
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 And they who believe and whose seed follow them in faith, We cause their seed to join them there, and We deprive them of nought of their life's work. Every man is a pledge for that which he has earned.
 
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 And We provide them with fruit and meat such as they desire.
 
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 There they pass from hand to hand a cup wherein is neither vanity nor cause of sin.
 
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 And there go round, waiting on them menservants of their own, as they were hidden pearls.
 
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 And some of them draw near unto others, questioning,
 
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 Saying: Behold! of old, when we were with our families, we were ever anxious;
 
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 But Allah has been gracious unto us and has preserved us from the torment of self delusion and regret.
 
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 Behold! we used to pray unto Him of old. Behold! He is the Benign, the Merciful.
 
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 Therefore warn men, O Muhammad. By the grace of Allah you are neither soothsayer nor madman.
 
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 Or say they: he is a poet, one for whom we may expect the accident of time?
 
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 Say unto them: Except your fill! Behold! I am with you among the expectant.
 
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 Do their minds command them to do this, or are they an outrageous people?
 
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 Or say they: He has invented it? No, but they will not believe!
 
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 Then let them produce speech the like thereof, if they are truthful.
 
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 Or were they created out of nothing? Or are they the creators?
 
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 Or did they create the heavens and the earth? No, but they are sure of nothing!
 
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 Or do they own the treasures of thy Lord? Or have they been given charge thereof?
 
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 Or have they any stairway unto heaven by means of which they overhear decrees. Then let their listener produce some warrant manifest!
 
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 Or has He daughters whereas you have sons?
 
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 Or askest you Muhammad a fee from them so that they are plunged in debt?
 
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 Or possess they the Unseen so that they can write it down?
 
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 Or seek they to ensnare the messenger? But those who disbelieve, they are the ensnared!
 
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 Or have they any god beside Allah? Glorified be Allah from all that they ascribe as partner unto Him!
 
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 And if they were to see a fragment of the heaven falling, they would say: A heap of clouds.
 
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 Then let them be O Messenger, till they meet their day, in which they will be thunder-stricken,
 
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 A day in which their guile will nothing avail them, nor will they be helped.
 
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 And truly, for those who do wrong, there is a judgment beyond that. But most of them know not.
 
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 So wait patiently O Messenger for thy Lord's decree, for surely you are in Our sight; and hymn the praise of thy Lord when you uprisest,
 
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 And in the night-time also hymn His praise, and at the setting of the stars.
 
   
 
 

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