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54. "The Moon"
  
     
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 The hour drew nigh and the moon was rent in two.
 
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 And if they behold an omen they turn away and say: Prolonged illusion.
 
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 They denied the Truth and followed their own lusts. Yet everything will come to a decision
 
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 And surely there has come unto them news of which the purport should deter,
 
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 Effective wisdom; but warnings avail not.
 
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 So withdraw from them O Messenger on the day when the Summoner summoneth unto a painful thing.
 
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 With downcast eyes, they come forth from the graves as they were locusts spread abroad,
 
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 Hastening toward the summoner; the disbelievers say: This is a hard day.
 
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 The people of Noah denied before them, yea, they denied Our slave and said: A madman; and he was repulsed.
 
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 So he cried unto his Lord, saying: I am vanquished, so give help.
 
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 Then opened The Lord the gates of heaven with pouring water
 
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 And caused the earth to gush forth springs, so that the waters met for a predestined purpose.
 
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 And The Lord carried him upon a thing of planks and nails,
 
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 That ran upon the waters in Our sight, as a reward for him who was rejected.
 
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 And truly The Lord left it as a token; but is there any that remembereth?
 
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 Then see how dreadful was My judgment after My warnings!
 
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 And in truth We have made the Qur'an easy to remember; but is there any that remembereth?
 
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 The tribe of A'ad rejected warnings. Then how dreadful was My judgment after My warnings.
 
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 Behold! We let loose on them a raging wind on a day of constant calamity,
 
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 Sweeping men away as though they were uprooted trunks of palm-trees.
 
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 Then see how dreadful was My judgment after My warnings!
 
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 And in truth We have made the Qur'an easy to remember; but is there any that remembereth?
 
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 The tribe of Thamud rejected warnings
 
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 For they said; Is it a mortal man, alone among us, that we are to follow? Then indeed we should fall into error and madness.
 
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 Has the remembrance been given unto him alone among us? No, but he is a rash liar.
 
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 Unto their warner it was said: To-morrow they will know who is the rash liar.
 
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 Behold! We are sending the she-camel as a test for them; so watch them and have patience;
 
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 And inform them that the water is to be shared between her and them. Every drinking will be witnessed.
 
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 But they call their comrade and he took and hamstrung her.
 
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 Then see how dreadful was My judgment after My warnings!
 
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 Behold! We sent upon them one Shout, and they became as the dry twigs rejected by the builder of a cattle-fold.
 
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 And in truth We have made the Qur'an easy to remember; but is there any that remembereth?
 
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 The people of Lot rejected warnings.
 
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 Behold! We sent a storm of stones upon them all except the family of Lot, whom We rescued in the last watch of the night,
 
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 As grace from Us. Thus We reward him who gives thanks.
 
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 And he indeed had warned them of Our blow, but they did doubt the warnings.
 
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 They even asked of him his guests for an ill purpose. Then We blinded their eyes and said: Taste now My judgment after My warnings!
 
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 And in truth the judgment decreed befell them early in the morning.
 
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 Now taste My judgment after My warnings!
 
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 And in truth We have made the Qur'an easy to remember; but is there any that remembereth?
 
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 And warnings came in truth unto the house of Pharaoh
 
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 Who denied Our revelations, every one. Therefore We grasped them with the grasp of the Mighty, the Powerful.
 
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 Are your disbelievers better than those, or have you some immunity in the scriptures?
 
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 Or say they: We are a host victorious?
 
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 The hosts will all be routed and will turn and flee.
 
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 No, but the Hour of doom is their appointed agreed appointment, and the Hour will be more wretched and more bitter than their earthly failure.
 
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 Behold! the guilty are in error and madness.
 
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 On the day when they are dragged into the Fire upon their faces it is said unto them: Feel the touch of hell.
 
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 Behold! We have created every thing by measure.
 
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 And Our commandment is but one commandment, as the twinkling of an eye.
 
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 And truly The Lord have destroyed your fellows; but is there any that remembereth?
 
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 And every thing they did is in the scriptures,
 
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 And every small and great thing is recorded.
 
54.
 Behold! the righteous will dwell among gardens and rivers,
 
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 Firmly established in the favour of a Mighty King.
  
   
 
 

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