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By the Sun and his (glorious) splendour; |
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By the Moon as it follow him; |
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By the Day as it shows up (the Sun's) glory; |
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By the Night as it conceals it; |
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By the Firmament and its (wonderful) structure; |
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By the Earth and its (wide) expanse; |
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By the Soul, and the proportion and order given to it; |
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And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;― |
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Truly he succeeds that purifies it, |
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And he fails that corrupts it! |
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The Thamud (people) rejected (their prophet) through their inordinate wrong-doing. |
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Behold the most wicked Man among them was deputed (for impiety). |
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But the messenger of Allah said to them: "It is a She-camel of Allah! and (bar her not from) having her drink!" |
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Then they rejected him (as a false prophet), and they hamstrung her. So their Lord, on account of their crime, obliterated their traces and made them equal (in destruction, high and low)! |
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And for Him is no fear of its consequences. |
