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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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Thamud and 'Aad denied the Striking Calamity

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

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And as for 'Aad, they were destroyed by a screaming, violent wind

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Which Allah 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 cities 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 your ancestors in the sailing ship

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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

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Then on that Day, the Resurrection will occur

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

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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

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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 forth 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 my death had been the decisive one

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My wealth has not availed me

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Gone from me is my authority

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[Allah 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 Allah, 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, the Qur'an 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 Muhammad had made up about Us some [false] sayings

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We would have seized him by the right hand

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Then We would have cut from him the aorta

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

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And indeed, the Qur'an 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