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69. "The Inevitable"
  
     
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 The Reality!  
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 What is the Reality?  
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 Ah, what will convey unto you what the reality is!
 
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 The tribes of Thamud and A'ad disbelieved in the judgment to come.
 
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 As for Thamud, they were destroyed by the lightning.
 
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 And as for A'ad, they were destroyed by a fierce roaring wind,
 
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 Which the Earth imposed on them for seven long nights and eight long days so that you mightest have seen men lying overthrown, as they were hollow trunks of palm- trees.
 
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 Can you O Messenger see any remnant of them?
 
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 And Pharaoh and those before him, and the communities that were destroyed, brought error,
 
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 And they ignored the messenger of their Lord, Therefore did He grip them with a tightening grip.
 
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 Behold! when the waters rose, The Lord carried you upon the ship
 
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 That He might make it a lesson for you, and that remembering ears that heard the story of Noah might remember.
 
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 And when the trumpet shall sound one blast
 
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 And the earth with the mountains shall be lifted up and crushed with one crash,
 
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 Then, on that day will the Event befall.
 
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 And the world is in turmoil  
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 And the angels will be on the sides thereof, and eight will uphold the Throne of thy Lord that day, above them.
 
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 On that day you will be exposed; not a secret of you will be hidden.
 
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 Then, as for him who is given his record in his right hand, he will say: Take, read my book!
 
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 Surely I knew that I should have to meet my reckoning.
 
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 Then he will be in blissful state
 
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 In the high garden of One Heaven
  
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 Of which the clusters are in easy reach.
 
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 And it will be said unto those therein: Eat and drink at ease for that which you sent on before you in past days.
 
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 But as for him who is given his record in his left hand, he will say: Oh, would that I had not been given my book
 
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 And knew not what my reckoning!
 
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 Oh, would that it had been death!
 
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 My wealth has not availed me,
 
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 My power has gone from me.
 
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 It will be said: They choose to be chained by their own pain and regrets.
 
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 And then expose him to great anguish
 
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 For the guilty mind is inserted in chains of great length.
  
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 Behold! They used not to believe in Allah the Tremendous,
 
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 And urged not on the feeding of the helpless.
 
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 Therefore they find few friends on the day of their reckoning.
  
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 Nor any food except bitterness.
 
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 Which none but guilty and tortured minds eat.
 
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 But no! I swear by all that you see
 
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 And all that you see not  
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 That it is indeed the speech of an illustrious messenger.
 
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 It is not poet's speech - little is it that you believe!
 
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 Nor diviner's speech - little is it that you remember!
 
   
 
 

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