Surah “Smoke, The Evident Smoke”

as rendered by Arthur John Arberry — 59 verses

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Ha Mi
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By the Clear Book
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We have sent it down in a blessed night (We are ever warning
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therein every wise bidding
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determined as a bidding from Us, (We are ever sending
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as a mercy from thy Lord (surely He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing
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Lord of the heavens and earth, and all that between them is if you have faith
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There is no god but He; He gives life and makes to die; your Lord and the Lord of your fathers, the ancients
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Nay, but they are in doubt, playing
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So be on the watch for a day when heaven shall bring a manifest smoke
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covering the people; this is a painful chastisement
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'O our Lord, remove Thou from us the chastisement; we are believers.
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How should they have the Reminder, seeing a clear Messenger already came to them
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then they turned away from him and said, 'A man tutored, possessed!
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'Behold, We are removing the chastisement a little; behold, you revert!
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Upon the day when We shall assault most mightily, then We shall take Our vengeance
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Already before them We tried the people of Pharaoh, and a noble Messenger came unto them
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saying, 'Deliver to me God's servants; I am for you a faithful Messenger
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and, 'Rise not up against God; behold, I come to you with a clear authority
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and I take refuge in my Lord and your Lord, lest you should stone me
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'But if so be that you believe me not, go you apart from me!
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And he called to his Lord, saying, 'These are a sinful people.
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'Then set thou forth with My servants in a watch of the night; surely you will be followed
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And leave the sea becalmed; they are a drowned host.
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They left how many gardens and fountains
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sown fields, and how noble a station
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and what prosperity they had rejoiced in
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Even so; and We bequeathed them upon another people
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Neither heaven nor earth wept for them, nor were they respited
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and We delivered the Children of Israel from the humbling chastisement
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from Pharaoh; surely he was a high One, of the prodigals
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and We chose them, out of a knowledge, above all beings
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and gave them signs wherein there was a manifest trial
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These men do say
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'There is nothing but our first death; we shall not be revived
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Bring us our fathers, if you speak truly!
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Are they better, or the people of Tubba' and those before them whom We destroyed? They were surely sinners
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We created not the heavens and earth, and all that between them is, in play
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We created them not save in truth; but most of them know it not
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Surely the Day of Decision shall be their appointed time, all together
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the day a master shall avail nothing a client, and they shall not be helped
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save him upon whom God has mercy; He is the All-mighty, the All-compassionate
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Lo, the Tree of Ez-Zakkou
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is the food of the guilty
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like molten copper, bubbling in the bell
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as boiling water bubbles
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'Take him, and thrust him into the midst of Hell
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then pour over his head the chastisement of boiling water!
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'Taste! Surely thou art the mighty, the noble
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This is that concerning which you were doubting.
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Surely the godfearing shall be in a station secure
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among gardens and fountains
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robed in silk and brocade, set face to face
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Even so; and We shall espouse them to wide-eyed houris
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therein calling for every fruit, secure
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They shall not taste therein of death, save the first death, And He shall guard them against the chastisement of Hell -
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a bounty from thy Lord; that is the mighty triumph
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Now We have made it easy by thy tongue, that haply they may remember
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So be on the watch; they too are on the watch