| 1. Ha-Mim.
 2. By the Book that makes things 
												clear;-
 
 3. We sent it down during a 
												Blessed Night: for We (ever) 
												wish to warn (against Evil).
 
 4. In the (Night) is made 
												distinct every affair of wisdom,
 
 5. By command, from Our 
												Presence. For We (ever) send 
												(revelations),
 
 6. As Mercy from thy Lord: for 
												He hears and knows (all things);
 
 7. The Lord of the heavens and 
												the earth and all between them, 
												if ye (but) have an assured 
												faith.
 
 8. There is no god but He: It is 
												He Who gives life and gives 
												death,- The Lord and Cherisher 
												to you and your earliest 
												ancestors.
 
 9. Yet they play about in doubt.
 
 10. Then watch thou for the Day 
												that the sky will bring forth a 
												kind of smoke (or mist) plainly 
												visible,
 
 11. Enveloping the people: this 
												will be a Penalty Grievous.
 
 12. (They will say:) "Our Lord! 
												remove the Penalty from us, for 
												we do really believe!"
 
 13. How shall the message be 
												(effectual) for them, seeing 
												that an Messenger explaining 
												things clearly has (already) 
												come to them,-
 
 14. Yet they turn away from him 
												and say: "Tutored (by others), a 
												man possessed!"
 
 15. We shall indeed remove the 
												Penalty for a while, (but) truly 
												ye will revert (to your ways).
 
 16. One day We shall seize you 
												with a mighty onslaught: We will 
												indeed (then) exact Retribution!
 
 17. We did, before them, try the 
												people of Pharaoh: there came to 
												them an apostle most honourable,
 
 18. Saying: "Restore to me the 
												Servants of Allah. I am to you 
												an apostle worthy of all trust;
 
 19. "And be not arrogant as 
												against Allah. for I come to you 
												with authority manifest.
 
 20. "For me, I have sought 
												safety with my Lord and your 
												Lord, against your injuring me.
 
 21. "If ye believe me not, at 
												least keep yourselves away from 
												me."
 
 22. (But they were aggressive:) 
												then he cried to his Lord: 
												"These are indeed a people given 
												to sin."
 
 23. (The reply came:) "March 
												forth with My Servants by night: 
												for ye are sure to be pursued.
 
 24. "And leave the sea as a 
												furrow (divided): for they are a 
												host (destined) to be drowned."
 
 25. How many were the gardens 
												and springs they left behind,
 
 26. And corn-fields and noble 
												buildings,
 
 27. And wealth (and conveniences 
												of life), wherein they had taken 
												such delight!
 
 28. Thus (was their end)! And We 
												made other people inherit (those 
												things)!
 
 29. And neither heaven nor earth 
												shed a tear over them: nor were 
												they given a respite (again).
 
 30. We did deliver aforetime the 
												Children of Israel from 
												humiliating Punishment,
 
 31. Inflicted by Pharaoh, for he 
												was arrogant (even) among 
												inordinate transgressors.
 
 32. And We chose them aforetime 
												above the nations, knowingly,
 
 33. And granted them Signs in 
												which there was a manifest trial
 
 34. As to these (Quraish), they 
												say forsooth:
 
 35. "There is nothing beyond our 
												first death, and we shall not be 
												raised again.
 
 36. "Then bring (back) our 
												forefathers, if what ye say is 
												true!"
 
 37. What! Are they better than 
												the people of Tubba and those 
												who were before them? We 
												destroyed them because they were 
												guilty of sin.
 
 38. We created not the heavens, 
												the earth, and all between them, 
												merely in (idle) sport:
 
 39. We created them not except 
												for just ends: but most of them 
												do not understand.
 
 40. Verily the Day of sorting 
												out is the time appointed for 
												all of them,-
 
 41. The Day when no protector 
												can avail his client in aught, 
												and no help can they receive,
 
 42. Except such as receive 
												Allah.s Mercy: for He is Exalted 
												in Might, Most Merciful.
 
 43. Verily the tree of Zaqqum
 
 44. Will be the food of the 
												Sinful,-
 
 45. Like molten brass; it will 
												boil in their insides.
 
 46. Like the boiling of scalding 
												water.
 
 47. (A voice will cry: "Seize ye 
												him and drag him into the midst 
												of the Blazing Fire!
 
 48. "Then pour over his head the 
												Penalty of Boiling Water,
 
 49. "Taste thou (this)! Truly 
												wast thou mighty, full of honour!
 
 50. "Truly this is what ye used 
												to doubt!"
 
 51. As to the Righteous (they 
												will be) in a position of 
												Security,
 
 52. Among Gardens and Springs;
 
 53. Dressed in fine silk and in 
												rich brocade, they will face 
												each other;
 
 54. So; and We shall join them 
												to Companions with beautiful, 
												big, and lustrous eyes.
 
 55. There can they call for 
												every kind of fruit in peace and 
												security;
 
 56. Nor will they there taste 
												Death, except the first death; 
												and He will preserve them from 
												the Penalty of the Blazing 
												Fire,-
 
 57. As a Bounty from thy Lord! 
												that will be the supreme 
												achievement!
 
 58. Verily, We have made this 
												(Qur'an) easy, in thy tongue, in 
												order that they may give heed.
 
 59. So wait thou and watch; for 
												they (too) are waiting.
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