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uncultivable valley near Your the punishment will come upon
Sacred House, Lord, so that they them, and when the wrongdoers
might establish their prayers. So, will say, ‘Our Lord, grant us
make people’s hearts incline respite for a short while. We
towards them and provide them will respond to Your call and
with fruits so that they may be will follow the messengers.’
grateful. [But God will answer], are you
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Lord, You have knowledge not those who swore that you
of all that we hide and all that we would never suffer any decline?
reveal: nothing in heaven or on 45 You lived in the dwellings of
earth is hidden from God. those who wronged themselves,
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Praise be to God who has and it was made clear to you
bestowed upon me, despite my how We had dealt with them
old age, Ishmael and Isaac. Surely and We gave you many
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my Lord is the hearer of prayer. examples. They hatched their
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Lord, grant that I may keep up plots; but these plots were all
the prayer, and so may my within God’s knowledge.
offspring. My Lord, accept my Though their plots were such as
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prayer. Forgive me, Lord, and to shake the mountains, [God
forgive my parents and all the will bring their plots to nothing.]
believers on the Day of 47 Never think that God will
Reckoning.’ fail in His promise to His
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Do not think God is unaware messengers. God is mighty and
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of the wrongdoers’ actions. He capable of retribution. On the
only gives them respite till the Day when the earth shall be
Day on which all eyes will stare changed into another earth, as
fixedly in horror. 43 They will shall be the heavens, they will all
hurry on in fright, their heads appear before God, the One, the
lifted up, their gaze directed Most Supreme. 49 On that Day
forward, their minds utterly void. you shall see the guilty bound in
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Warn men of the Day when chains, their garments shall be