# Sura  44 - Smoke

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> Sura XLIV (44) - SMOKE     (Mecca - 59 Verses)               (LIII - 88)     
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        Ha. Mim.  By this clear Book!
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>        See! on a blessed night have we sent it down, for we would warn mankind:
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>        On the night wherein all things are disposed in wisdom,
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>        By virtue of our behest.  Lo! we have ever sent forth Apostles,
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>        A mercy from thy Lord: he truly heareth and knoweth all things -
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>        Lord of the Heavens and of the Earth and of all that is between them, -
> if ye be firm in faith -
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>        There is no God but He! - He maketh alive and killeth! - Your Lord and
> the Lord of your sires of old!~
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>        Yet with doubts do they disport them.
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>        But mark them on the day when the Heaven shall give out a palpable
> smoke,
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> 44:10  Which shall enshroud mankind: this will be an afflictive torment.
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>        They will cry, "Our Lord! relieve us from this torment: see! we are
> believers."
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>        But how did warning avail them, when an undoubted apostle had come to
> them;
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>        And they turned their back son him, and said, "Taught by others,
> possessed?"
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>        Were we to relieve you from the plague even a little, ye would certainly
> relapse.
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>        On the day when we shall fiercely put forth our great fierceness, we
> will surely take vengeance on them!
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>        Of old, before their time, had we proved the people of Pharaoh, when a
> noble apostle presented himself to them.
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>        "Send away with me," cried he, "the servants of God; for I am an apostle
> worthy of all credit:
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>        And exalt not yourselves against God, for I come to you with undoubted
> power;
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>        And I take refuge with Him who is my Lord and your Lord, that ye stone
> me not:
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> 44:20  And if ye believe me not, at least separate yourselves from me,"
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>        And he cried to his Lord, "That these are a wicked people."
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>        "March forth then, said God, with my servants by night, for ye will be
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> pursued.
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>        And leave behind you the cleft sea: they are a drowned host."
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>        How many a garden and fountain did they quit!
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>        And corn fields and noble dwellings!
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>        And pleasures in which they rejoiced them!
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>        So was it: and we gave them as a heritage to another people.
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>        Nor Heaven nor Earth wept for them, nor was their sentence respited;
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>        And we rescued the children of Israel from a degrading affliction -
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> 44:30  From Pharaoh, for he was haughty, given to excess.
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>        And we chose them, in our prescience, above all peoples,
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>        And we shewed them miracles wherein was their clear trial.
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>        Yet these infidels say,
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>        "There is but our first death, neither shall be be raised again:
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>        Bring back our sires, if ye be men of truth."
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>        Are they better than the people of Tobba,
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>        And those who flourished before them whom we destroyed for their evil
> deeds?
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>        We have not created the Heavens and the Earth and whatever is between
> them in sport:
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>        We have not created them but for a serious end: but the greater part of
> them understand it not.
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> 44:40  Verily the day of severing shall be the appointed time fo all:
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>        A day when the master shallnot at all be aided by the servant, neither
> shall they behelped;
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>        Save those on whom God shall have his mercy: for He is the mighty,
> the merciful.
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>        Verily the tree of Ez-Zakkoum
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>        Shall be the sinner's food:
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>        Like dregs of oil shall it boil up in their bellies,
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>        Like the boiling of scalding water.
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>        "-Seize ye him, and drag hinm into the mid-fire;
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>        Then pour on his head of the tormenting boiling water.
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>        -'Taste this:' for thou forsooth art the mighty, the honourable!
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> 44:50  Lo! this is that of which ye doubted.!
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>        But the pious shall be in a secure place,
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>        Amid gardens and fountains,
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>        Clothed in silk and richest robes, facing one another:
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>        Thus shall it be: and we will wed them to the virgins with large dark
> eyes:
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>        Therein shall they call, secure, for every kind of fruit;
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>        Therein, their first death passed, shall they taste death no more; and
> He shall keep them from the pains of Hell: -
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>        'Tis the gracious bounty of thy Lord!  This is the great felicity.
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>        We have made this Koran easy for thee in thine own tongue, that they may
> take the warning.
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>        Therefore wait thou, for they are waiting.
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> — *Sura  44 - Smoke*