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| IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God. | 1 |
| By those sent in a series! 1 | 2 |
| And by those who speed swiftly! | 3 |
| And by the dispensers abroad! | 4 |
| And by the separators apart! | 5 |
| And by those who instil the reminder, as an excuse or warning! | 6 |
| Verily, what ye are threatened with shall surely happen! | 7 |
| And when the stars shall be erased! | 8 |
| And when the heavens shall be cleft! | 9 |
| And when the mountains shall be winnowed! | 10 |
| And when the apostles shall have a time appointed for them! | 11 |
| For what day is the appointment made? | 12 |
| For the day of decision! and what shall make thee know what the decision is? | 13 |
| Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! | 14 |
| Have we not destroyed those of yore, and then followed them up with those of the latter day? | 15 |
| Thus do we with the sinners. | 16 |
| Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! | 17 |
| Did we not create you from contemptible water, and place it in a sure depository unto a certain decreed term? for we are able and well able too! | 18 |
| Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! | 19 |
| Have we not made for them the earth to hold the living and the dead? and set thereon firm mountains reared aloft? and given you to drink water in streams? | 20 |
| Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! | 21 |
| Go off to that which ye did call a lie! Go off to the shadow of three columns, that shall not shade nor avail against the flame! Verily, it throws off sparks like towers,—as though they were yellow camels! | 22 |
| Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! | 23 |
| This is the day when they may not speak,—when they are not permitted to excuse themselves! | 24 |
| Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! | 25 |
| This is the day of decision! We have assembled you with those of yore; if ye have any stratagem employ it now! | 26 |
| Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! | 27 |
| Verily, the pious are amid shades and springs and fruit such as they love.—‘Eat and drink with good digestion, for that which ye have done!’ | 28 |
| Verily, thus do we reward those who do well. | 29 |
| Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! | 30 |
| ‘Eat and enjoy yourselves for a little; verily, ye are sinners!’ | 31 |
| Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! | 32 |
| And when it is said to them bow down, they bow not down. | 33 |
| Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! | 34 |
| And in what new discourse after it will they believe? | 35 |
