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The Meanings of the Holy Qur'an: Sura 69, "The Reality"
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The Sure Reality!
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What is the Sure Reality?
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And what will make thee realise what the Sure Reality is?
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The Thamud and the 'Ad People (branded) as false the Stunning Calamity!
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But the Thamud,- they were destroyed by a terrible Storm of thunder and lightning!
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And the 'Ad, they were destroyed by a furious Wind, exceedingly violent;
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He made it rage against them seven nights and eight days in succession: so that thou couldst see the (whole) people lying prostrate in its (path), as they had been roots of hollow palm-trees tumbled down!
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Then seest thou any of them left surviving?
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And Pharaoh, and those before him, and the Cities Overthrown, committed habitual Sin.
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And disobeyed (each) the apostle of their Lord; so He punished them with an abundant Penalty.
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We, when the water (of Noah's Flood) overflowed beyond its limits, carried you (mankind), in the floating (Ark),
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That We might make it a Message unto you, and that ears (that should hear the tale and) retain its memory should bear its (lessons) in remembrance.
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Then, when one blast is sounded on the Trumpet,
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And the earth is moved, and its mountains, and they are crushed to powder at one stroke,-
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On that Day shall the (Great) Event come to pass.
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And the sky will be rent asunder, for it will that Day be flimsy,
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And the angels will be on its sides, and eight will, that Day, bear the Throne of thy Lord above them.
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That Day shall ye be brought to Judgment: not an act of yours that ye hide will be hidden.
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Then he that will be given his Record in his right hand will say: "Ah here! Read ye my Record!
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"I did really understand that my Account would (One Day) reach me!"
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And he will be in a life of Bliss,
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In a Garden on high,
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The Fruits whereof (will hang in bunches) low and near.
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"Eat ye and drink ye, with full satisfaction; because of the (good) that ye sent before you, in the days that are gone!"
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And he that will be given his Record in his left hand, will say: "Ah! Would that my Record had not been given to me!
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"And that I had never realised how my account (stood)!
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"Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me!
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"Of no profit to me has been my wealth!
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"My power has perished from me!"...
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(The stern command will say): "Seize ye him, and bind ye him,
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"And burn ye him in the Blazing Fire.
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"Further, make him march in a chain, whereof the length is seventy cubits!
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"This was he that would not believe in God Most High.
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"And would not encourage the feeding of the indigent!
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"So no friend hath he here this Day.
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"Nor hath he any food except the corruption from the washing of wounds,
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"Which none do eat but those in sin."
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So I do call to witness what ye see,
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And what ye see not,
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That this is verily the word of an honoured apostle;
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It is not the word of a poet: little it is ye believe!
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Nor is it the word of a soothsayer: little admonition it is ye receive.
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(This is) a Message sent down from the Lord of the Worlds.
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And if the apostle were to invent any sayings in Our name,
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We should certainly seize him by his right hand,
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And We should certainly then cut off the artery of his heart:
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Nor could any of you withhold him (from Our wrath).
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But verily this is a Message for the God-fearing.
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And We certainly know that there are amongst you those that reject (it).
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But truly (Revelation) is a cause of sorrow for the Unbelievers.
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But verily it is Truth of assured certainty.
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So glorify the name of thy Lord Most High. THE ASCENDING STAIRWAYS, STAIRCASES UPWARD, SCKEPTIC, CHAPTER NO.
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A questioner asked about a Penalty to befall-
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The Unbelievers, the which there is none to ward off,-
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(A Penalty) from God, Lord of the Ways of Ascent.
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The angels and the spirit ascend unto him in a Day the measure whereof is (as) fifty thousand years:
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Therefore do thou hold Patience,- a Patience of beautiful (contentment).
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They see the (Day) indeed as a far-off (event):
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But We see it (quite) near.
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The Day that the sky will be like molten brass,
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And the mountains will be like wool,
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And no friend will ask after a friend,
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Though they will be put in sight of each other,- the sinner's desire will be: Would that he could redeem himself from the Penalty of that Day by (sacrificing) his children,
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His wife and his brother,
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His kindred who sheltered him,
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And all, all that is on earth,- so it could deliver him:
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By no means! for it would be the Fire of Hell!-
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Plucking out (his being) right to the skull!-
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Inviting (all) such as turn their backs and turn away their faces (from the Right).
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And collect (wealth) and hide it (from use)!
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Truly man was created very impatient;-
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Fretful when evil touches him;
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And niggardly when good reaches him;-
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Not so those devoted to Prayer;-
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Those who remain steadfast to their prayer;
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And those in whose wealth is a recognised right.
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For the (needy) who asks and him who is prevented (for some reason from asking);
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And those who hold to the truth of the Day of Judgment;
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And those who fear the displeasure of their Lord,-
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For their Lord's displeasure is the opposite of Peace and Tranquillity;-
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And those who guard their chastity,
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Except with their wives and the (captives) whom their right hands possess,- for (then) they are not to be blamed,
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But those who trespass beyond this are transgressors;-
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And those who respect their trusts and covenants;
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And those who stand firm in their testimonies;
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And those who guard (the sacredness) of their worship;-
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Such will be the honoured ones in the Gardens (of Bliss).
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Now what is the matter with the Unbelievers that they rush madly before thee-
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From the right and from the left, in crowds?
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Does every man of them long to enter the Garden of Bliss?
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By no means! For We have created them out of the (base matter) they know!
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Now I do call to witness the Lord of all points in the East and the West that We can certainly-
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Substitute for them better (men) than they; And We are not to be defeated (in Our Plan).
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So leave them to plunge in vain talk and play about, until they encounter that Day of theirs which they have been promised!-
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The Day whereon they will issue from their sepulchres in sudden haste as if they were rushing to a goal-post (fixed for them),-
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Their eyes lowered in dejection,- ignominy covering them (all over)! such is the Day the which they are promised!
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