Surah “The Event, The Inevitable, That Which is Coming”

as rendered by Abdul Majid Daryabadi — 96 verses

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When there happeneth Event
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There is about its happening no lie
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Abasing exalting
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This will happen when the earth is shaken, shake
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And the mountains are crumbled, crumbled
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So that they become dust seattered
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And ye are classes three
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Those on the right hand; how happy shall those on the right hand be
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And those on the left hand; how miserable shall those on the left hand be
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And the preceders are the pre-ceders
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Those! they shall be the brought nigh
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In Gardens of Delight
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A multitude from the ancients
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And a few from the later generations
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On couches in wrought with gold
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Reclining thereon facing each other
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There shall go round Unto them youths ever-young
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With goblets and ewers and a cup of limpid drink
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Whereby there shall be neither headiness nor will they be inebriated
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And with fruit from that which they choose
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And with flesh of fowls from that Which they desire
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And there will be fair ones large eyed
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The likes Unto pearls hidden
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A recompense for that which they have been working
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Therein they hear no vain or sinful discourse
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Nought but the saying: peace! peace
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And the fellows on the right hand; how be happy shall the fellows on the right hand be
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Midst lote-trees thornless
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And plantains laden with fruit
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And a shade ever-spread
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And water everflowing
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And fruit abundant
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Neither ending nor forbidden
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And carpets raised
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Verily We! We have created those maidens by a creation
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And have made them virgins
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Loving, of equal age
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For the fellows on the right hand
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A multitude from the ancients
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And a multitude from the later generations
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And the fellows on the left hand; how miserable Shall the fellows on the left hand be
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Amidst scorching wind and scalding water
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And the shade of black smoke
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Neither cool nor pleasant
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Verily they have been heretofore affluent
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And they have been persisting in the heinous offence
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And they were wont to say: when we have died and become dust and bones, shall we, then, verily be raised
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We and our fathers of old
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Say thou: verily the ancients and those of later generations
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Are going to be assembled on the appointed time of a Day Known
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Then verily ye, O ye erring, denying people
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Shall surely eat of the tree of Az-Zqqum
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And shall fill therewith your bellies
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And shall be drinkers thereon of boiling water
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Drinkers even as the drinking of thirsty camels
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This shall be their entertainment on the Day of Requital
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We! it is We Who created you: wherefore confess ye not
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Behold! - that which ye emit
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Create him ye, or are We the Creator
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We! it is We Who have decreed death Unto you all. And We are not to be outrun
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That We may substitute others like Unto you and produce you into that which ye know not
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And assuredly ye have fully known the first Production Wherefore heed ye not
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Behold! - that which ye sow
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Cause it ye to grow, or are We the Grower
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If We willed, surely We would make it chaff, so that ye would be left wondering
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Verily we are undone
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Aye! we are deprived
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Behold! - the water which ye drink
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Send it down ye from the raincloud, or are We the Sender down
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If We willed, surely We would make it brackish. Wherefore give ye not thanks
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Behold! - the fire which ye strike out
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Produce ye the tree thereof, or are We the Producer
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We! it is We Who made it a reminder and a provision Unto the campers
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Wherefore hallow thou the name of thy Lord, the Mighty
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I swear by the setting of the stars
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And verily that is a mighty oath, if ye but knew
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That it is a Recitation honourable
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In a Book Hidden
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Which none can touch except the purified
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It is a revelation from the Lord of the worlds
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Is it this discourse that ye hold lightly
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And make it your provision that ye should belie it
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Wherefore then - when the soul cometh up to the wind-pipe
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And ye are then looking on
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And We are nigher Unto him than ye are, but ye behold not
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Wherefore then, if ye are not to be requite
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Cause ye it not to return, if ye say sooth
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Then if he be of the broughtnigh
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For him shall be comfort, and fragrance and a Garden of Delight
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And if he be of the fellows on the right hand
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Then: peace Unto thee, for thou art of those on the right hand
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And if he be of the beliers, the erring
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Then an entertainment of boiling water
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And roasting in a Blaze
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Verily this! this is the very truth
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Wherefore hallow thou the name of thy Lord, the Mighty