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                                  20  What is wrong with them that they are storing in their hearts.
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                                  they do not believe?  When the  24  Therefore, give them the
                                  Quran is read to them, why do news of a painful punishment.
                                  they not fall to their knees?  25  But for those who believe
                                  22  Indeed, those who are bent on and do good works; for
                                  denying the truth reject it— them there shall be a never-
                                  23  God is quite aware of what ending reward.

                                           85.  THE   CONSTELLATIONS
                                                     (AL-BURUJ)
                                      In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
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                                    By  the   sky  with  its torment of burning.  But those
                                  constellations,  2  and by the who believe and do good deeds
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                                  promised Day,  by the Witness shall be rewarded with gardens
                                  and the witnessed,  4  destroyed watered by flowing rivers. That
                                  were the people of the trench, is the supreme triumph.  12  The
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                                   the makers of the fuel-stoked grip of your Lord is indeed
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                                  fire! They sat by it  to watch severe— it is He who begins
                                  what they were doing to the and repeats [His creation]—
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                                  believers,  whom they hated for  14  and He is the Forgiving and
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                                  no other reason than that they Loving One.  The Lord of the
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                                  believed in God, the Almighty, Glorious Throne,  Executor of
                                  the Praiseworthy,  9  to whom His own will.  17  Have you not
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                                  belongs the kingdom of the heard the story of the hosts  of
                                  heavens and the earth. God is Pharaoh and Thamud?  19  Yet
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                                  witness over all things.  Those those who deny the truth persist
                                  who persecute the believing men in denial.  20  God encompasses
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                                  and believing women, and then them from all sides.  It is indeed
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                                  do not repent, will surely suffer a glorious Quran,  written on a
                                  the punishment of Hell, and the preserved Tablet.
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