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1We created them and strengthened their joints ; and if we please we can exchange for the likes of them in their stead. Verily, this is a memorial, and whoso will, let him take unto his Lord a way. [30] But ye will not please except God please! Verily, God is knowing, wise. He makes whomsoever He pleases to enter into His mercy; but the unjust He has prepared for them a grievous woe! Tue CHAPTER OF THOSE SENT. (LXXVII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. By those sent in a series?! And by those who speed swiftly! And by the dispensers abroad ! And by the separators apart! [5] And by those who instil the reminder, as an excuse or warning! Verily, what ye are threatened with shall surely happen! And when the stars shall be erased! And when the heaven shall be cleft! [10] And when the mountains shall be winnowed! And when the apostles shall have a time appointed for them! 1 Either angels or winds, or as some interpret the passage, the verses of the Qur'an. LXXVII, 12-41. THE CHAPTER OF THOSE SENT. 315 For what day is the appointment made ? For the day of decision! and what shall make thee know what the decision is ? ‘[15] Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! Have we not destroyed those of yore, and then followed them up with those of the latter day? Thus do we with the sinners. Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! [20] Did we not create you from contemptible water, and place it in a sure depository unto a certain decreed term ? for we are able and well able too! Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! [25] Have we not made for them the earth to hold the living and the dead? and set thereon firm mountains reared aloft? and given you to drink water in streams ? Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! Go off to that which ye did call a lie! [30] Go off to the shadow of three columns, that shall not shade nor avail against the flame! Verily, it throws off sparks like towers,—as though they were yellow camels! Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! [35] This is the day when they may not speak,— when they are not permitted to excuse themselves! Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! This is the day of decision! We have assembled you with those of yore; if ye have any stratagem employ it now! [40] Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! : Verily, the pious are amid shades and springs and 316 THE QUR'AN. LXXVII, 41-LXXVIII, 15. fruit such as they love-—‘ Eat and drink with good digestion, for that which ye have done!’ Verily, thus do we reward those who do well. [45] Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! ‘Eat and enjoy yourselves for a little; verily, ye are sinners !’ Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! And when it is said to them bow down, they bow not down. Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! [50] And in what new discourse after it will they believe ? THe CHAPTER OF THE INFORMATION. (LXXVIII. Mecca.)
2And when it is said to them bow down, they bow not down. Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! [50] And in what new discourse after it will they believe ? THe CHAPTER OF THE INFORMATION. (LXXVIII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Of what do they ask each other ?—Of the mighty information whereon they do dispute!? nay, they shall know too well! [5] Again, nay, they shall know too well! Have we not set the earth as a couch, and the mountains as stakes, and created you in pairs, and made your sleep for rest, [10] and made the night a garment, and made the day for livelihood, and built above you seven solid (heavens) and set a burning lamp, and sent down from the rain expressing clouds water pouring forth, [15] to bring out 1 T.e. the news of the resurrection. LXXVIUI, 15-41. THE CHAPTER OF THE INFORMATION. 317 thereby the grain and herb and gardens thickly planted ? 7 Verily, the day of decision is an appointed time; and the day when the trumpet shall be blown, and ye shall come in troops, and the heavens shall be opened, and shall be all doors, [20] and the mountains shall be moved, and shall be like a mirage! Verily, hell is an ambuscade; a reward for the outrageous, to tarry therein for ages. They shall not taste therein cool nor drink, [25] but only boiling water and pus ;—a fit reward !} Verily, they did not hope for the account ; but they ever said our signs were lies. Everything have we remembered in a book. [30] ‘Then taste, for we will only increase your torment !’ Verily, for the pious is a blissful place,—gardens and vineyards, and girls with swelling breasts of the same age as themselves, and a brimming cup ; [35] they shall hear therein no folly and no lie;—a reward from thy Lord, a sufficient gift! The Lord of the heavens and the earth, and what is between them both,—the Merciful,—they cannot obtain audience of Him! ° The day when the Spirit and the angels shall stand in ranks, they shall not speak save to whom the Merciful permits, and who speaks aright. That is the true day; and whoso pleases let him take to a resort unto his Lord! [40] Verily, we have warned you of a torment that is nigh: on a day when man shall see what his two hands have sent forward; and the misbeliever shall say, ‘Would that I were dust!’ 318 THE QUR'AN. LXXIX, 1-21. THE CHAPTER OF THOSE WHO TEAR OUT. (LX XIX. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. By those who tear out violently ! And by those who gaily releas€?) And by those who float through the air! And the preceders who precede?! [5] And those who manage the affair! On the day when the quaking® quakes which the following one shall succeed! Hearts on that day shall tremble; eyes thereon be humbled! [10] They say, ‘Shall we be sent back to our old course ?—What! when we are rotten bones ?’ they say, ‘That then were a losing return!’ | But it will only be one scare, and lo! they will be on the surface !
3Hearts on that day shall tremble; eyes thereon be humbled! [10] They say, ‘Shall we be sent back to our old course ?—What! when we are rotten bones ?’ they say, ‘That then were a losing return!’ | But it will only be one scare, and lo! they will be on the surface ! [15] Has the story of Moses‘ come to you? when his Lord addressed him in the holy valley of Tuva, ‘Go unto Pharaoh, verily, he is outrageous; and say, “ Hast thou a wish to purify thyself, and that I may guide thee to thy Lord, and thou mayest fear ?””’ [20] So he showed him the greatest sign; but 1 Referring to the angel of death and his assistants, who tear away’ the souls of the wicked violently, and gently release the souls of the good. * The angels who precede the souls of the righteous to Paradise. 5 The trumpet blast at the last day, which shall make the- universe quake. “ See Chapter XX, verse 12, p. 35. LXXIX, 21-45. THE CHAPTER OF THOSE WHO TEAR OUT. 319 he called him a liar and rebelled. Then he retreated hastily, and gathered, and proclaimed, and said, ‘I am your Lord most High!’ [25] but God seized him with the punishment of the future life and of the former. Verily, in that is a lesson to him who fears ! Are ye harder to create or the heaven that He has built? He raised its height and fashioned it ; and made its night to cover it, and brought forth its noonday light ; [30] and the earth after that He did stretch out. He brings forth from it its water and its pasture. And the mountains He did firmly set, a provision for you and for your cattle. ~~ And when the great predominant calamity shall come, [35] on the day when man shall remember what he strove after, and hell shall be brought out for him who sees ! And as for him who was outrageous and preferred the life of this world, verily, hell is the resort | [40] But as for him who feared the station of his Lord, and prohibited his soul from lust, verily, Paradise is the resort! ipa® They shall ask thee about the Hour, for when it "is set. Whereby canst thou mention it? Unto thy Lord its period belongs. [45] Thou art only a warner to him who fears it. On thé day they see it, it will be as though they had only tarried an evening or the noon thereof._| e 320 THE QuR’AN. LXXX, 1-22. Tue CuHaptTer ‘He FrRownep,’ (LXXX. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. He frowned and turned his back, for that ‘there came to hima blind man?! : But what should make thee know whether haply he may be purified? or may be mindful and the reminder profit him ? [5] But as for him who is wealthy, thou dost attend to him; and thou dost not care that he is not purified ; but as for him who comes to thee earnestly fearing the while, [10] from him thou art diverted ! Nay! verily, it is a memorial; and whoso pleases will remember it. In honoured pages exalted, purified, [15] in the hands of noble, righteous scribes! May man be killed! how ungrateful he is!
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1We created them and strengthened their joints ; and if we please we can exchange for the likes of them in their stead. Verily, this is a memorial, and whoso will, let him take unto his Lord a way. [30] But ye will not please except God please! Verily, God is knowing, wise. He makes whomsoever He pleases to enter into His mercy; but the unjust He has prepared for them a grievous woe! Tue CHAPTER OF THOSE SENT. (LXXVII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. By those sent in a series?! And by those who speed swiftly! And by the dispensers abroad ! And by the separators apart! [5] And by those who instil the reminder, as an excuse or warning! Verily, what ye are threatened with shall surely happen! And when the stars shall be erased! And when the heaven shall be cleft! [10] And when the mountains shall be winnowed! And when the apostles shall have a time appointed for them! 1 Either angels or winds, or as some interpret the passage, the verses of the Qur'an. LXXVII, 12-41. THE CHAPTER OF THOSE SENT. 315 For what day is the appointment made ? For the day of decision! and what shall make thee know what the decision is ? ‘[15] Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! Have we not destroyed those of yore, and then followed them up with those of the latter day? Thus do we with the sinners. Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! [20] Did we not create you from contemptible water, and place it in a sure depository unto a certain decreed term ? for we are able and well able too! Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! [25] Have we not made for them the earth to hold the living and the dead? and set thereon firm mountains reared aloft? and given you to drink water in streams ? Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! Go off to that which ye did call a lie! [30] Go off to the shadow of three columns, that shall not shade nor avail against the flame! Verily, it throws off sparks like towers,—as though they were yellow camels! Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! [35] This is the day when they may not speak,— when they are not permitted to excuse themselves! Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! This is the day of decision! We have assembled you with those of yore; if ye have any stratagem employ it now! [40] Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! : Verily, the pious are amid shades and springs and 316 THE QUR'AN. LXXVII, 41-LXXVIII, 15. fruit such as they love-—‘ Eat and drink with good digestion, for that which ye have done!’ Verily, thus do we reward those who do well. [45] Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! ‘Eat and enjoy yourselves for a little; verily, ye are sinners !’ Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! And when it is said to them bow down, they bow not down. Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! [50] And in what new discourse after it will they believe ? THe CHAPTER OF THE INFORMATION. (LXXVIII. Mecca.)
2And when it is said to them bow down, they bow not down. Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! [50] And in what new discourse after it will they believe ? THe CHAPTER OF THE INFORMATION. (LXXVIII. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. Of what do they ask each other ?—Of the mighty information whereon they do dispute!? nay, they shall know too well! [5] Again, nay, they shall know too well! Have we not set the earth as a couch, and the mountains as stakes, and created you in pairs, and made your sleep for rest, [10] and made the night a garment, and made the day for livelihood, and built above you seven solid (heavens) and set a burning lamp, and sent down from the rain expressing clouds water pouring forth, [15] to bring out 1 T.e. the news of the resurrection. LXXVIUI, 15-41. THE CHAPTER OF THE INFORMATION. 317 thereby the grain and herb and gardens thickly planted ? 7 Verily, the day of decision is an appointed time; and the day when the trumpet shall be blown, and ye shall come in troops, and the heavens shall be opened, and shall be all doors, [20] and the mountains shall be moved, and shall be like a mirage! Verily, hell is an ambuscade; a reward for the outrageous, to tarry therein for ages. They shall not taste therein cool nor drink, [25] but only boiling water and pus ;—a fit reward !} Verily, they did not hope for the account ; but they ever said our signs were lies. Everything have we remembered in a book. [30] ‘Then taste, for we will only increase your torment !’ Verily, for the pious is a blissful place,—gardens and vineyards, and girls with swelling breasts of the same age as themselves, and a brimming cup ; [35] they shall hear therein no folly and no lie;—a reward from thy Lord, a sufficient gift! The Lord of the heavens and the earth, and what is between them both,—the Merciful,—they cannot obtain audience of Him! ° The day when the Spirit and the angels shall stand in ranks, they shall not speak save to whom the Merciful permits, and who speaks aright. That is the true day; and whoso pleases let him take to a resort unto his Lord! [40] Verily, we have warned you of a torment that is nigh: on a day when man shall see what his two hands have sent forward; and the misbeliever shall say, ‘Would that I were dust!’ 318 THE QUR'AN. LXXIX, 1-21. THE CHAPTER OF THOSE WHO TEAR OUT. (LX XIX. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. By those who tear out violently ! And by those who gaily releas€?) And by those who float through the air! And the preceders who precede?! [5] And those who manage the affair! On the day when the quaking® quakes which the following one shall succeed! Hearts on that day shall tremble; eyes thereon be humbled! [10] They say, ‘Shall we be sent back to our old course ?—What! when we are rotten bones ?’ they say, ‘That then were a losing return!’ | But it will only be one scare, and lo! they will be on the surface !
3Hearts on that day shall tremble; eyes thereon be humbled! [10] They say, ‘Shall we be sent back to our old course ?—What! when we are rotten bones ?’ they say, ‘That then were a losing return!’ | But it will only be one scare, and lo! they will be on the surface ! [15] Has the story of Moses‘ come to you? when his Lord addressed him in the holy valley of Tuva, ‘Go unto Pharaoh, verily, he is outrageous; and say, “ Hast thou a wish to purify thyself, and that I may guide thee to thy Lord, and thou mayest fear ?””’ [20] So he showed him the greatest sign; but 1 Referring to the angel of death and his assistants, who tear away’ the souls of the wicked violently, and gently release the souls of the good. * The angels who precede the souls of the righteous to Paradise. 5 The trumpet blast at the last day, which shall make the- universe quake. “ See Chapter XX, verse 12, p. 35. LXXIX, 21-45. THE CHAPTER OF THOSE WHO TEAR OUT. 319 he called him a liar and rebelled. Then he retreated hastily, and gathered, and proclaimed, and said, ‘I am your Lord most High!’ [25] but God seized him with the punishment of the future life and of the former. Verily, in that is a lesson to him who fears ! Are ye harder to create or the heaven that He has built? He raised its height and fashioned it ; and made its night to cover it, and brought forth its noonday light ; [30] and the earth after that He did stretch out. He brings forth from it its water and its pasture. And the mountains He did firmly set, a provision for you and for your cattle. ~~ And when the great predominant calamity shall come, [35] on the day when man shall remember what he strove after, and hell shall be brought out for him who sees ! And as for him who was outrageous and preferred the life of this world, verily, hell is the resort | [40] But as for him who feared the station of his Lord, and prohibited his soul from lust, verily, Paradise is the resort! ipa® They shall ask thee about the Hour, for when it "is set. Whereby canst thou mention it? Unto thy Lord its period belongs. [45] Thou art only a warner to him who fears it. On thé day they see it, it will be as though they had only tarried an evening or the noon thereof._| e 320 THE QuR’AN. LXXX, 1-22. Tue CuHaptTer ‘He FrRownep,’ (LXXX. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. He frowned and turned his back, for that ‘there came to hima blind man?! : But what should make thee know whether haply he may be purified? or may be mindful and the reminder profit him ? [5] But as for him who is wealthy, thou dost attend to him; and thou dost not care that he is not purified ; but as for him who comes to thee earnestly fearing the while, [10] from him thou art diverted ! Nay! verily, it is a memorial; and whoso pleases will remember it. In honoured pages exalted, purified, [15] in the hands of noble, righteous scribes! May man be killed! how ungrateful he is!
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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