Surat Aţ-Ţūr (The Mount) - سورة الطور

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

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By the mount

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By the Mount, that is, the [name of the] mountain on which God spoke to Moses,

52:2

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And [by] a Book inscribed

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and an inscribed Book,

52:3

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In parchment spread open

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on an unrolled parchment, that is, the Torah or the Qur’ān.

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And [by] the frequented House

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By the [greatly] frequented House — which is [located] in the third, or the sixth or the seventh heaven, directly above the Ka‘ba; it is visited every day by seventy thousand angels, circumambulating it and performing prayers [around it], and never returning to it;

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And [by] the heaven raised high

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and the raised roof, that is to say, the heaven,

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And [by] the sea filled [with fire],

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and the swarming sea: that is to say, the one that is filled:

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Indeed, the punishment of your Lord will occur.

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lo! your Lord’s chastisement will assuredly take place, it will assuredly come down on those who deserve it;

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Of it there is no preventer.

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there is none that can avert it, from such [a deserving one].

52:9

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On the Day the heaven will sway with circular motion

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On the day (yawma is operated by la-wāqi‘un, ‘will assuredly take place’) when the heaven will heave with a great heaving, [when it will] move and spin,

52:10

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And the mountains will pass on, departing -

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and the mountains move with a great motion, becoming scattered dust, this is the Day of Resurrection.

52:11

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Then woe, that Day, to the deniers,

52:12

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Who are in [empty] discourse amusing themselves.

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The Day they are thrust toward the fire of Hell with a [violent] thrust, [its angels will say],

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"This is the Fire which you used to deny.

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Then is this magic, or do you not see?

52:16

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[Enter to] burn therein; then be patient or impatient - it is all the same for you. You are only being recompensed [for] what you used to do."

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Indeed, the righteous will be in gardens and pleasure,

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Enjoying what their Lord has given them, and their Lord protected them from the punishment of Hellfire.

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[They will be told], "Eat and drink in satisfaction for what you used to do."

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They will be reclining on thrones lined up, and We will marry them to fair women with large, [beautiful] eyes.

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And those who believed and whose descendants followed them in faith - We will join with them their descendants, and We will not deprive them of anything of their deeds. Every person, for what he earned, is retained.

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And We will provide them with fruit and meat from whatever they desire.

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They will exchange with one another a cup [of wine] wherein [results] no ill speech or commission of sin.

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There will circulate among them [servant] boys [especially] for them, as if they were pearls well-protected.

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And they will approach one another, inquiring of each other.

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They will say, "Indeed, we were previously among our people fearful [of displeasing Allah ].

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So Allah conferred favor upon us and protected us from the punishment of the Scorching Fire.

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Indeed, we used to supplicate Him before. Indeed, it is He who is the Beneficent, the Merciful."

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So remind [O Muhammad], for you are not, by the favor of your Lord, a soothsayer or a madman.

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Or do they say [of you], "A poet for whom we await a misfortune of time?"

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Say, "Wait, for indeed I am, with you, among the waiters."

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Or do their minds command them to [say] this, or are they a transgressing people?

52:33

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Or do they say, "He has made it up"? Rather, they do not believe.

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Then let them produce a statement like it, if they should be truthful.

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Or were they created by nothing, or were they the creators [of themselves]?

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Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they are not certain.

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Or have they the depositories [containing the provision] of your Lord? Or are they the controllers [of them]?

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Or have they a stairway [into the heaven] upon which they listen? Then let their listener produce a clear authority.

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Or has He daughters while you have sons?

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Or do you, [O Muhammad], ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?

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Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?

52:42

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Or do they intend a plan? But those who disbelieve - they are the object of a plan.

52:43

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Or have they a deity other than Allah ? Exalted is Allah above whatever they associate with Him.

52:44

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And if they were to see a fragment from the sky falling, they would say, "[It is merely] clouds heaped up."

52:45

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So leave them until they meet their Day in which they will be struck insensible -

52:46

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The Day their plan will not avail them at all, nor will they be helped.

52:47

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And indeed, for those who have wronged is a punishment before that, but most of them do not know.

52:48

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And be patient, [O Muhammad], for the decision of your Lord, for indeed, you are in Our eyes. And exalt [ Allah ] with praise of your Lord when you arise.

52:49

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And in a part of the night exalt Him and after [the setting of] the stars.