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78. "The Tidings"
  
     
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 Of which do they question one another?
 
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 It is of the awful tidings,  
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 Concerning which they are in disagreement.
 
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 No, but they will come to know!  
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 No, again, but they will come to know!
 
6.
 Has the Lord not made the earth an expanse,
 
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 And the high hills for protection?
 
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 And the Lord has created you in pairs,
 
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 And has appointed your sleep for repose,
 
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 And has appointed the night as a cloak,
 
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 And has appointed the day for livelihood.
 
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 And the Lord has built above you the heavens and the stars,
 
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 And has appointed a dazzling lamp being the Sun,
 
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 And has sent down from the rainy clouds abundant water,
 
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 Thereby to produce grain and plant,
 
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 And gardens of thick foliage.
 
17.
 Behold! the End of Days is a fixed time,
 
18.
 A day when the trumpet is blown and you come in multitudes,
 
19.
 And One Heaven is opened and becomes as gates,
 
20.
 And the hills are set in motion and become as a mirage.
 
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 Behold! hell lurks in ambush,  
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 A home for the rebellious.  
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 They will abide therein for ages.
 
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 There they shall taste they neither coolness nor any drink
 
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 Except boiling water and a paralyzing cold:
 
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 Reward proportioned by their own choice because of their evil deeds.
 
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 For Behold! They looked not for a reckoning;
 
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 For they called these revelations false with strong denial.
 
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 Everything that has been recorded in this Book.
 
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 So taste of that which you have earned. No increase does the Lord give you except of torment.
 
31.
 Behold! for the duteous is achievement -
 
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 The gardens of paradise of One Heaven,
 
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 And friends and family for companions,
 
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 And a full cup.  
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 In One Heaven is never heard vain discourse, nor lying -
 
36.
 Compensation from thy Lord - a gift in payment -
 
37.
 Lord of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, the Beneficent; with Whom none can converse.
 
38.
 On the day when the angels and the Spirit stand arrayed, they speak not, saving him whom the Beneficent allows and who speaks right.
 
39.
 That is the True Day. So whoso will should seek recourse unto his Lord.
 
40.
 Behold! You have now been warned of a future doom, a day whereon a person will look on that which their own hands have sent before, and the disbeliever will cry: "Would that I were dust!"
 
   
 
 

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