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74. "The Clothed One"
  
     
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 O you enveloped in thy cloak,
 
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 Arise and warn!  
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 Thy Lord magnify,  
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 Thy raiment purify,  
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 Pollution shun!  
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 And show not favour in seeking wordly gain!
 
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 For the sake of thy Lord, be patient!
 
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 For when the trumpet shall sound,  
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 Surely that day will be a day of anguish,
 
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 Not of ease, for disbelievers.  
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 Leave it to the Lord to deal with those who choose to isolate themselves from the Lord,
 
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 And yet were bestowed upon them ample wealth in life,
 
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 And a family of children of their own in their company
 
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 And an easy life for them.  
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 Yet they desire that the Lord should give more.
 
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 No! For Behold! They have been stubborn to these revelations.
 
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 On themselves they shall impose a fearful doom in the afterlife.
 
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 For Behold! They did not consider the future when they planned their lives –
  
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 Self-destroyed in regrets and unfinished business is how they planned!
 
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 Again self-destroyed are they is how they planned! -
 
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 They looked at these words,  
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 Then they frowned and showed displeasure to the need for self-restraint.
 
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 Then turned he away in pride  
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 And said: These words are nothing else than myths from of the Sacred Tanakh (Old Testament);
 
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 These words are nothing else than the speech of mortal man.
 
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 Yet these same people shall find themselves in great anguish and regret in the afterlife
 
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 - Ah, what will convey unto you what that regret is! -
 
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 It is leaving nothing settled; it is sparing nothing for the future.
 
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 It shrivels and traps the soul.  
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 Surrounded by many layers of sadness.
 
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 A Reminder then unto us mortals, not by the burning sun,
 
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 No, by the Moon  
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 And the night when it withdraws  
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 And the dawn when it shines forth,
 
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 Behold! This is one of the greatest warnings
 
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 As a warning unto humanity,  
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 Unto him of you who will advance or hang back.
 
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 Every soul is a pledge for its own deeds;
 
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 Save those who will stand on the right hand.
 
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 In the gardens of One Heaven they will ask one another
 
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 Concerning the guilty:  
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 What has brought you to this anguish?
 
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 They will answer: We were not of those who prayed
 
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 Nor did we feed the helpless.  
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 We used to immerse ourselves in our own vanity and the mindless chatter of fame obsessed society,
 
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 And we used to deny the Day of Judgment,
 
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 Till the Inevitable came unto us.
 
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 No amount of prayers, or spiritual intervention shall except them from themselves.
 
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 For they turned away from the clear warnings,
 
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 And now are as if they were frightened livestock
 
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 Fleeing from a lion?  
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 No, but everyone of them desires that they should be given a clean and fresh start from Allah.
 
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 No, verily. They fear not the Hereafter.
 
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 No, verily. Behold! This is a clear warning.
 
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 For whosoever may listen to it.
 
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 And they will not listen unless Allah wills it. He is the fountain of respect. He is the fountain of Mercy.
 
   
 
 

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