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249 The Pilgrimage 22:6
111 Nor do I know whether it may judge with truth. Our Lord is the
mean a trial for you and a short Gracious One whose help we
reprieve.’ 112 Say, ‘My Lord, seek against what you utter.’

22. THE PILGRIMAGE (AL-HAJJ)

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
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O People! Fear your Lord. The drop, then from clotted blood,
catastrophe of the Last Hour then a lump of flesh, both shaped
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shall be terrible indeed: when and unshaped, so that We might
that Day comes, every suckling manifest to you [Our power]. We
mother shall forsake her infant cause what We will to stay in the
and every pregnant woman shall womb for an appointed time,
cast her burden and everyone then We bring you forth as infants
will appear intoxicated, although and then We cause you to grow
they are not: the punishment of and reach full growth. Then,
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God will be severe indeed. Yet some of you will pass away early
there are some who dispute about in life, while some of you will
God without having any reach extreme old age in which
knowledge and they follow every they will know nothing of what
rebellious devil, 4 it has been they once knew. You see the
decreed concerning anyone earth, dead and barren, but no
whom he befriends, that he shall sooner do We send down rain
mislead him and guide him to upon it than it begins to stir and
the punishment of the Fire. swell, and produce every kind of
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O people! If you are in doubt luxuriant vegetation: that is
about the Resurrection, because God is the truth. It is He
remember that We first created who gives life to the dead and
you from dust, then from a sperm He has the power to will