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83. "The Defrauders "
  
     
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 Woe unto the defrauders:  
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 Those of the exiled Sadduceean Himyarites and Nabatean bedouin, descendents of the Phoenician traders,
 
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 Those who called themselves the UMAY-YAD, the Hand of the goddess, who burnt the true words of Allah and pretended to be pious .
 
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 Do such people not consider that they will be raised again?
 
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 Unto an Day of Account,  
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 The day when they must stand before the Lord of the Universe?
 
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 No, but the record of such people who bear false scripture is wicked and vile.
  
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 Ah! What will convey unto you their false record if you cannot see? -
 
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 To an ass, a thistle is delicious fruit.  
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 Woe unto the teachers of false witness to Allah on that day!
 
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 Those who deny the truth of the End of Days
 
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 Which deny their own senses that every end is a new beginning,
 
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 Who, when you read unto them these revelations, say: These are wicked distortions, for the Lord is to be feared as a hateful god who kills his own children.
 
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 No, but that which they have earned is rust upon their hearts.
 
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 No, but surely on that day they will be covered from the mercy of their Lord.
 
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 Then Behold! They verily will find anguish in the afterlife,
 
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 And it will be said unto them: This is that which you used to deny.
 
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 No, but the record of the righteous is in Heaven -
 
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 Ah, what will convey unto you what One Heaven is! -
 
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 A written deed that exists,  
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 Attested by all the Angels and all the Prophets who are near unto their Lord in One Heaven.
 
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 Behold! the righteous verily are in delight,
 
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 Gazing upon this time and the choice you make ,  
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 You will know in their faces either the radiance of delight or the frown of disappointment.
 
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 They seek to give the faithful, a drink from a vessel long ago sealed
  
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 Whose seal is truth - for this they give to all those who strive for enlightenment -
 
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 mixed with water of Pure Wisdom,  
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 A spring from which those brought near to Allah drink.
 
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 Behold! the guilty deceivers when alive used to laugh at those who blindly believed,
 
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 And did wink one to another when they passed them;
 
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 And when they returned to their own folk, they returned jesting;
 
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 And when they saw them they said: Behold! These men and women are like ignorant sheep who follow us to their doom.
 
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 Yet they were not sent as guardians over them.
 
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 This day is for those who know the truth to laugh, not the false teachers,
 
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 On high view in the presence of Allah, gazing.  
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 Whether you be a sheep or a lion?
 
   
 
 

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