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[69:0] In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
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[69:1] The incontestable (event). |
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[69:2] What an incontestable (event)! |
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[69:3] It is truly incontestable. |
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[69:4] Thamoud and `Aad disbelieved in the Shocker. |
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[69:5] As for Thamoud, they were annihilated by the devastating
(quake). |
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[69:6] As for `Aad, they were annihilated by a persistent, violent storm. |
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[69:7] He unleashed it upon them for seven nights and eight days, violently.
You could see the people tossed around like decayed palm trunks. |
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[69:8] Can you find any trace of them? |
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[69:9] Pharaoh, others before him, and the sinners
(of Sodom) were wicked. |
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[69:10] They disobeyed the messenger of their Lord. Consequently, He requited
them a devastating requital. |
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[69:11] The flood was devastating, so we carried you on the floating
(ark). |
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[69:12] We rendered it a lesson for you, that any listening ear may understand. |
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[69:13] When the horn is blown once. |
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[69:14] The earth and the mountains will be carried off and crushed; utterly
crushed. |
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[69:15] That is the day when the inevitable event will come to pass. |
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[69:16] The heaven will crack, and fall apart. |
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[69:17] The angels will be all around, and Your Lord's dominion will then
encompass eight
(universes).
*69:17 This earth is full of misery because of its physical distance from
God, since it is in the seventh universe (7:143). In the Hereafter, an eighth
universe will be created that will be even farther than our seventh universe;
it will be called ``Hell'' (89:23). |
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[69:18] On that day, you will be exposed, nothing of you can be hidden. |
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[69:19] As for the one who receives his record with his right hand, he will
say, "Come read my record. |
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[69:20] "I did believe that I was going to be held accountable." |
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[69:21] He has deserved a happy life. |
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[69:22] In an exalted Paradise. |
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[69:23] Its fruits are within reach. |
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[69:24] Eat and drink happily in return for your works in days past. |
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[69:25] As for him who is given his record in his left hand, he will say,
"Oh, I wish I never received my record. |
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[69:26] "I wish I never knew my account. |
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[69:27] "I wish my death was eternal. |
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[69:28] "My money cannot help me. |
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[69:29] "All my power is gone." |
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[69:30] Take him and shackle him. |
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[69:31] Burn him in Hell. |
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[69:32] In a chain that is seventy arms long, tie him up. |
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[69:33] For he did not believe in GOD, Most Great. |
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[69:34] Nor did he advocate the feeding of the poor.
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[69:35] Consequently, he has no friend here. |
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[69:36] Nor any food, except the bitter variety. |
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[69:37] Food for the sinners. |
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[69:38] I swear by what you see. |
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[69:39] And what you do not see. |
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[69:40] This is the utterance of an honorable messenger. |
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[69:41] Not the utterance of a poet; rarely do you believe. |
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[69:42] Nor the utterance of a soothsayer; rarely do you take heed. |
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[69:43] A revelation from the Lord of the universe. |
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[69:44] Had he uttered any other teachings. |
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[69:45] We would have punished him. |
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[69:46] We would have stopped the revelations to him. |
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[69:47] None of you could have helped him. |
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[69:48] This is a reminder for the righteous. |
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[69:49] We know; some of you are rejectors. |
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[69:50] It is but sorrow for the disbelievers. |
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[69:51] It is the absolute truth. |
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[69:52] Therefore, you shall glorify the name of your Lord, Most Great. |