| 1 | By the dawn;
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| 2 | By the ten nights (i.e. the first ten days of the month of Dhul-Heejjah) ,
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| 3 | And by the even and the odd (of all the creations of Allah) .
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| 4 | And by the night when it departs.
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| 5 | There is indeed in them (the above oaths) sufficient proofs for men of understanding (and that, they should avoid all kinds of sins and disbeliefs, etc.)!
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| 6 | Did you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)) not see (thought) how your Lord dealt with Ad (people)?
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| 7 | Who were very tall like lofty pillars,
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| 8 | The like of which were not created in the land?
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| 9 | And (with) Thamood (people), who cut (hewed) out rocks in the valley (to make dwellings)?
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| 10 | And (with) Firaun (Pharaoh), who had pegs (who used to torture men by binding them to pegs)?
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| 11 | Who did transgress beyond bounds in the lands (in the disobedience of Allah).
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| 12 | And made therein much mischief.
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| 13 | So your Lord poured on them different kinds of severe torment.
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| 14 | Verily, your Lord is Ever Watchful (over them).
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| 15 | As for man, when his Lord tries him by giving him honour and gifts, then he says (puffed up): "My Lord has honoured me."
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| 16 | But when He tries him, by straitening his means of life, he says: "My Lord has humiliated me!"
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| 17 | Nay! But you treat not the orphans with kindness and generosity (i.e. you neither treat them well, nor give them their exact right of inheritance)!
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| 18 | And urge not on the feeding of AlMiskeen (the poor)!
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| 19 | And you devour inheritance all with greed,
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| 20 | And you love wealth with much love!
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| 21 | Nay! When the earth is ground to powder,
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| 22 | And your Lord comes with the angels in rows,
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| 23 | And Hell will be brought near that Day. On that Day will man remember, but how will that remembrance (then) avail him?
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| 24 | He will say: "Alas! Would that I had sent forth (good deeds) for (this) my life!"
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| 25 | So on that Day, none will punish as He will punish.
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| 26 | And none will bind as He will bind.
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| 27 | (It will be said to the pious): "O (you) the one in (complete) rest and satisfaction!
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| 28 | "Come back to your Lord, Well-pleased (yourself) and well-pleasing unto Him!
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| 29 | "Enter you, then, among My honoured slaves,
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| 30 | "And enter you My Paradise!"
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