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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.