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of pitch and the fire shall envelop Let them take warning
their faces. 51 God will requite from it and know that He
each soul according to its deeds. is but one God. Let those
Swift is God’s reckoning. possessed of understanding may
52 This is a message for mankind. take heed.

15. THE ROCKY TRACT (AL-HIJR)

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
1 Alif Lam Ra if you are truthful?’ But We
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send down the angels only to
These are the verses of a clear bring justice and then they will
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Book, the Quran. A time will not be reprieved.
surely come when those who are 9 It is We who have sent down
bent on denying the truth will the Reminder and We will, most
wish that they had surrendered surely, safeguard it.
themselves to God, 3 so leave 10 We sent messengers before
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them to eat and enjoy themselves you to the previous peoples, but
and let them be beguiled by vain there was never a messenger
hopes; for soon they will realise who came to them but they
[the truth]. 4 We have never mocked him: 12 thus We cause
destroyed a township without a this [habit of mocking] to enter
definite decree having been into the hearts of the sinful.
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issued; no people can forestall 13 They will not believe in it,
their doom, nor can they delay it. though they have before them
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They say, ‘You to whom the the example of former peoples,
Reminder [the Quran] has been 14 and even if We opened to them
sent down, you are surely a door from heaven, and they
possessed. 7 Why do you not began ascending through it,
bring down the angels upon us, 15 they would still say, ‘Our eyes