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75. THE DAY OF RESURRECTION
(AL-QIYAMAH)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
1 By the Day of Resurrection, to learn this revelation: 17 We
2 and by the self-reproaching Ourself shall see to its collection
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soul! Does man think that We and recital. 18 When We have
cannot [resurrect him and] bring recited it, follow its words
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his bones together again? attentively; and then, it will be
4 Indeed, We have the power to for Us to make its meaning clear.
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restore his very finger tips! Yet 20 Truly, you love immediate
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man wants to deny what is ahead gain and neglect the Hereafter.
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of him: he asks, ‘When is this 22 Some faces will be radiant on
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Day of Resurrection to be?’ But that Day, looking towards their
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[on that Day], when mortal sight Lord; and some faces will on
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is confounded, and the moon is that Day be gloomy, dreading
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eclipsed, when the sun and the some great affliction. But when
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moon are brought together, on [man’s soul] reaches the throat,
that Day man will ask, ‘Where 27 and when it is asked: ‘Could
can I escape?’ 11 But there is any magician save him now?’;
nowhere to take refuge: 12 on 28 and he knows that it is the time
that Day, to your Lord alone is of parting; 29 when his legs are
the recourse. 13 On that Day, brought together [when affliction
man will be told of all that he has is combined with affliction];
sent before and what he has left 30 on that Day he will be driven
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behind. Indeed, man shall be a towards your Lord!
witness against himself, 15 in 31 He neither believed nor
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spite of all the excuses he prayed, but rejected the Truth
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may offer. and turned away! Then he went
16 [Prophet], do not move your off to his people, swaggering.
tongue too fast in your attempt 34 Woe to you, [O man!], yes,