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The Inevitable Reality -

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What is the Inevitable Reality?

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And what can make you know what is the Inevitable Reality?

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Thamūd and ʿAad denied the Striking Calamity [i.e., the Resurrection].

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So as for Thamūd, they were destroyed by the overpowering [blast].

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And as for ʿAad, they were destroyed by a screaming,1 violent wind

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Which He [i.e., Allāh] imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.

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Then do you see of them any remains?

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And there came Pharaoh and those before him and the overturned cities1 with sin.

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And they disobeyed the messenger of their Lord, so He seized them with a seizure exceeding [in severity].

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Indeed, when the water overflowed, We carried you [i.e., your ancestors] in the sailing ship1

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That We might make it for you a reminder and [that] a conscious ear would be conscious of it.

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Then when the Horn is blown with one blast

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And the earth and the mountains are lifted and leveled with one blow [i.e., stroke] -

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Then on that Day, the Occurrence [i.e., Resurrection] will occur,

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And the heaven will split [open], for that Day it is infirm.1

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And the angels are at its edges. And there will bear the Throne of your Lord above them, that Day, eight [of them].

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That Day, you will be exhibited [for judgement]; not hidden among you is anything concealed.1

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So as for he who is given his record in his right hand, he will say, "Here, read my record!

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Indeed, I was certain that I would be meeting my account."

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So he will be in a pleasant life -

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In an elevated garden,

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Its [fruit] to be picked hanging near.

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[They will be told], "Eat and drink in satisfaction for what you put forth1 in the days past."

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But as for he who is given his record in his left hand, he will say, "Oh, I wish I had not been given my record

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And had not known what is my account.

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I wish it [i.e., my death] had been the decisive one.1

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My wealth has not availed me.

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Gone from me is my authority."1

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[Allāh will say], "Seize him and shackle him.

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Then into Hellfire drive him.

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Then into a chain whose length is seventy cubits insert him."

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Indeed, he did not used to believe in Allāh, the Most Great,

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Nor did he encourage the feeding of the poor.

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So there is not for him here this Day any devoted friend

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Nor any food except from the discharge of wounds;

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None will eat it except the sinners.

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So I swear by what you see

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And what you do not see

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[That] indeed, it [i.e., the Qur’ān] is the word of a noble Messenger.

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And it is not the word of a poet; little do you believe.

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Nor the word of a soothsayer; little do you remember.

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[It is] a revelation from the Lord of the worlds.

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And if he [i.e., Muḥammad] had made up about Us some [false] sayings,

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We would have seized him by the right hand;1

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Then We would have cut from him the aorta.1

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And there is no one of you who could prevent [Us] from him.

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And indeed, it [i.e., the Qur’ān] is a reminder for the righteous.

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And indeed, We know that among you are deniers.

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And indeed, it will be [a cause of] regret upon the disbelievers.

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And indeed, it is the truth of certainty.

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So exalt the name of your Lord, the Most Great.