"The Sent Forth"
In the name of Allah, tho Beneficent, the Merciful.
"77.1": I swear by the emissary winds, sent one after another (for men's benefit),
"77.2": By the raging hurricanes,
"77.3": Which scatter clouds to their destined places,
"77.4": Then separate them one from another,
"77.5": Then I swear by the angels who bring down the revelation,
"77.6": To clear or to warn.
"77.7": Most surely what you are threatened with must come to pass.
"77.8": So when the stars are made to lose their light,
"77.9": And when the heaven is rent asunder,
"77.10": And when the mountains are carried away as dust,
"77.11": And when the apostles are gathered at their appointed time.
"77.12": To what day is the doom fixed?
"77.13": To the day of decision.
"77.14": And what will make you comprehend what the day of decision is?
"77.15": Woe on that day to the rejecters.
"77.16": Did We not destroy the former generations?
"77.17": Then did We follow them up with later ones.
"77.18": Even thus shall We deal with the guilty.
"77.19": Woe on that day to the rejecters.
"77.20": Did We not create you from contemptible water?
"77.21": Then We placed it in a secure resting-place,
"77.22": Till an appointed term,
"77.23": So We proportion it -- how well are We at proportioning (things).
"77.24": Woe on that day to the rejecters.
"77.25": Have We not made the earth to draw together to itself,
"77.26": The living and the dead,
"77.27": And made therein lofty mountains, and given you to drink of sweet water?
"77.28": Woe on that day to the rejecters.
"77.29": Walk on to that which you called a lie.
"77.30": Walk on to the covering having three branches,
"77.31": Neither having the coolness of the shade nor availing against the flame.
"77.32": Surely it sends up sparks like palaces,
"77.33": As if they were tawny camels.
"77.34": Woe on that day to the rejecters.
"77.35": This is the day on which they shall not speak,
"77.36": And permission shall not be given to them so that they should offer excuses.
"77.37": Woe on that day to the rejecters.
"77.38": This is the day of decision: We have gathered you and those of yore.
"77.39": So if you have a plan, plan against Me (now).
"77.40": Woe on that day to the rejecters.
"77.41": Surely those who guard (against evil) shall be amid shades and fountains,
"77.42": And fruits such as they desire.
"77.43": Eat and drink pleasantly because of what you did.
"77.44": Surely thus do We reward the doers of good.
"77.45": Woe on that day to the rejecters.
"77.46": Eat and enjoy yourselves for a little; surely you are guilty.
"77.47": Woe on that day to the rejecters.
"77.48": And where it is said to them: Bow down, they do not bow down.
"77.49": Woe on that day to the rejecters.
"77.50": In what announcement, then, after it, will they believe?
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