When the heaven is split open, [when it is] rent asunder,
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and when the stars are dispersed, [when] they expire and begin to fall,
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and when the seas are burst forth, released one upon the other, forming one mass
of water, so that the sweet [water] mixes with the salty;
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and when the tombs are overturned, [when] their earth [above them] is dug up and
its dead are raised (the response to idhā, âwhenâ, and all that is supplemented thereto is [the
following]):
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a soul, every soul, will know, at the time of the [occurrence of the] things
mentioned, which is the Day of Resurrection, what it has sent ahead, in the way of deeds, and, what [it has],
left behind, of these and did not do.
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O, disbelieving, man! What has deceived you with regard to your generous Lord?,
so that you have disobeyed Him,
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Who created you, when you were not, then made you upright, in your created form,
with sound limbs, then proportioned you (read fa-âadalak or fa-âaddalak), making you symmetrical in
shape, with well-proportioned parts, so that no hand or leg is longer than the other,
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assembling you in whatever (mā is a relative) form He will?
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No indeed! â a deterrent against letting oneself be misled by the generosity of
God, exalted be He. Rather 731 you, that is, disbelievers of Mecca, deny Judgement, requital for deeds;
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Yet lo! there are above you watchers, from among the angels, over your deeds,
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noble, in Godâs sight, writers, of these [deeds],
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who know whatever you do, all of it.
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Indeed the pious, the believers who are sincere in their faith, shall be amid
bliss, [in] Paradise,
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and indeed the profligates, the disbelievers, shall be in Hell-fire, a scorching
fire,
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entering it, to suffer its heat, on the Day of Judgement, [the Day of] Requital,
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and they shall not be absent from it, [they shall not] be taken out of it.
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And what would show you, [what would] inform you, what the Day of Judgement is?
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Again, what would show you what the Day of Judgement is? â [repeated] to
emphasise its enormity.
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[It is] a day (read yawmu) when no soul will be of any avail, any use, to
another soul, and the [absolute] command on that day will be Godâs: there will be no [power of] command for
anyone other than Him thereat, in other words, none has been given the power to mediate thereupon, in
contrast to [situations] in this world.
