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77. THOSE THAT ARE
SENT FORTH (AL-MURSALAT)

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
1 By the winds sent forth in swift on that Day to those who reject
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succession, and then storming the truth!
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on with a tempest’s force, and 20 Did We not create you from
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the rain-spreading winds, a humble fluid, then placed it
4 separating one from another, in a secure repository [the
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by those who bring down the womb], for an appointed term?
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reminder, to excuse some and 23 Thus We have determined the
warn others: 7 that which you stages of development and Our
have been promised shall be power to determine is excellent
fulfilled. indeed. 24 Woe on that Day to
8 When the stars lose their those who reject the truth!
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light, and when the sky is rent 25 Have We not made the earth a
asunder, 10 and when the receptacle, 26 for the living and
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mountains crumble into dust the dead? Have We not placed
11 and when the messengers are high mountains upon it and given
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brought together at the appointed you fresh water to drink? Woe
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time— for what Day has this on that Day to those who reject
been appointed? 13 For the Day the truth!
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of Decision. What will explain 29 Proceed to that which you
to you what the Day of Judgement denied. 30 Proceed to a shadow
is? 15 Woe on that Day to those rising in three columns:
who reject the truth. 16 Did We 31 affording neither shade, nor
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not destroy the earlier peoples? protection from the flames, and
17 We will now cause the later throwing up sparks as huge as
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ones to follow them: thus do towers and as bright as a herd
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We deal with the culprits. Woe of yellow camels. Woe on that