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Chap 44: SMOKE (44:0) Ha-Mim (44:1) By the Book that makes things clear;- (44:2) We sent it down during a Blessed Night: for We (ever) wish to warn (against Evil) (44:3) In the (Night) is made distinct every affair of wisdom, (44:4) By command, from Our Presence. For We (ever) send (revelations), (44:5) As Mercy from thy Lord: for He hears and knows (all things); (44:6) The Lord of the heavens and the earth and all between them, if ye (but) have an assured faith (44:7) There is no god but He: It is He Who gives life and gives death,- The Lord and Cherisher to you and your earliest ancestors (44:8) Yet they play about in doubt (44:9) Then watch thou for the Day that the sky will bring forth a kind of smoke (or mist) plainly visible, (44:10) Enveloping the people: this will be a Penalty Grievous (44:11) (They will say:) "Our Lord! remove the Penalty from us, for we do really believe!" (44:12) How shall the message be (effectual) for them, seeing that an Apostle explaining things clearly has (already) come to them,- (44:13) Yet they turn away from him and say: "Tutored (by others), a man possessed!" (44:14) We shall indeed remove the Penalty for a while, (but) truly ye will revert (to your ways) (44:15) One day We shall seize you with a mighty onslaught: We will indeed (then) exact Retribution! (44:16) We did, before them, try the people of Pharaoh: there came to them an apostle most honourable, (44:17) Saying: "Restore to me the Servants of God: I am to you an apostle worthy of all trust; (44:18) "And be not arrogant as against God: for I come to you with authority manifest (44:19) "For me, I have sought safety with my Lord and your Lord, against your injuring me (44:20) "If ye believe me not, at least keep yourselves away from me." (44:21) (But they were aggressive:) then he cried to his Lord: "These are indeed a people given to sin." (44:22) (The reply came:) "March forth with My Servants by night: for ye are sure to be pursued (44:23) "And leave the sea as a furrow (divided): for they are a host (destined) to be drowned." (44:24) How many were the gardens and springs they left behind, (44:25) And corn-fields and noble buildings, (44:26) And wealth (and conveniences of life), wherein they had taken such delight! (44:27) Thus (was their end)! And We made other people inherit (those things)! (44:28) And neither heaven nor earth shed a tear over them: nor were they given a respite (again) (44:29) We did deliver aforetime the Children of Israel from humiliating Punishment, (44:30) Inflicted by Pharaoh, for he was arrogant (even) among inordinate transgressors (44:31) And We chose them aforetime above the nations, knowingly, (44:32) And granted them Signs in which there was a manifest trial (44:33) As to these (Quraish), they say forsooth: (44:34) "There is nothing beyond our first death, and we shall not be raised again (44:35) "Then bring (back) our forefathers, if what ye say is true!" (44:36) What! Are they better than the people of Tubba and those who were before them? We destroyed them because they were guilty of sin (44:37) We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, merely in (idle) sport: (44:38) We created them not except for just ends: but most of them do not understand (44:39) Verily the Day of sorting out is the time appointed for all of them,- (44:40) The Day when no protector can avail his client in aught, and no help can they receive, (44:41) Except such as receive God's Mercy: for He is Exalted in Might, Most Merciful (44:42) Verily the tree of Zaqqum (44:43) Will be the food of the Sinful,- (44:44) Like molten brass; it will boil in their insides (44:45) Like the boiling of scalding water (44:46) (A voice will cry: "Seize ye him and drag him into the midst of the Blazing Fire! (44:47) "Then pour over his head the Penalty of Boiling Water, (44:48) "Taste thou (this)! Truly wast thou mighty, full of honour! (44:49) "Truly this is what ye used to doubt!" (44:50) As to the Righteous (they will be) in a position of Security, (44:51) Among Gardens and Springs; (44:52) Dressed in fine silk and in rich brocade, they will face each other; (44:53) So; and We shall join them to Companions with beautiful, big, and lustrous eyes (44:54) There can they call for every kind of fruit in peace and security; (44:55) Nor will they there taste Death, except the first death; and He will preserve them from the Penalty of the Blazing Fire,- (44:56) As a Bounty from thy Lord! that will be the supreme achievement! (44:57) Verily, We have made this (Qur'an) easy, in thy tongue, in order that they may give heed (44:58) So wait thou and watch; for they (too) are waiting
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