# Sura  51 - The Scattering

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> SURA LI (51) - The Scattering      (Mecca - 60 Verses)       (XLIII - 60)     
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        By the clouds which scatter with scattering,
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>        And those which bear their load,
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>        And by those which speed lightly along,
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>        And those which apportion by command!
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>        True, indeed, is that with which ye are threatened,
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>        And lo! the judgment will surely come.
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>        By the star-tracked heaven!
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>        Ye are discordant in what ye say;
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>        But whoso turneth him from the truth, is turned from it by a divine
> decree.
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> 51:10  Perish the liars,
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>        Who are bewildered in the depths of ignorance!
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>        They ask, "When this day of judgment?"
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>        On that day they shall be tormented at the fire.
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>        "Taste ye of this your torment, whose speedy coming ye challenged."
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>        But the God-fearing shall dwell amid gardens and fountains,
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>        Enjoying what their Lord hath given them, because, aforetime they were
> well-doers:
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>        But little of the night was it that they slept,
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>        And at dawn they prayed for pardon,
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>        And gave due share of their wealth to the suppliant and the outcast.
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> 51:20  On Earth are signs for men of firm belief,
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>        And also in your own selves:  Will ye not then behold them?
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>        The Heaven hath sustenance for you, and it containeth that which you are
> promised.
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>        By the Lord then of the heaven and of the earth, I swear that this is
> the truth, even as ye speak yourselves.
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>        Hath the story reached thee of Abraham's honoured guests?
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>        When they went in unto him and said, "Peace!" he replied, "Peace: - they
> are strangers."
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>        And he went apart to his family, and brought a fatted calf,
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>        And set it before them.  He said, "Eat ye not?"
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>        And he conceived a fear of them.  They said to him, "Fear not:" and
> announced to him a wise son.
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>        His wife came up with outcry: she smote her face and said, "What I, old
> and barren!"
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> 51:30  They said, "Thus saith thy Lord.  He truly is the Wise, the Knowing."
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>        Said he, "And what, O messengers, is your errand?"
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>        They said, "To a wicked people are we sent,
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>        To hurl upon them stones of clay,
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>        Destined by thy Lord for men guilty of excesses."
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>        And we brought forth the believers who were in the city:
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>        But we found not in it but one family of Muslims.
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>        And signs we left in it for those who dread the afflictive
> chastisement, -
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>        And in Moses: when we sent him to Pharaoh with manifest power:
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>        But relying on his forces he turned his back and said, "Sorcerer, or
> Possessed."
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> 51:40  So we seized him and his hosts and cast them into the sea; for of all
> blame was he worthy.
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>        And in Ad: when we sent against them the desolating blast:
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>        It touched not aught over which it came, but it turned it to dust.
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>        And in Themoud: when it was said to them, "Enjoy yourselves for yet a
> while."
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>        But they rebelled against their Lord's command: so the tempest took them
> as they watched its coming.
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>        They were not able to stand upright, and could not help themselves.
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>        And we destroyed the people of Noah, before them; for an impious people
> were they.
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>        And the Heaven - with our hands have we built it up, and given it its
> expanse;
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>        And the Earth - we have stretched it out like a carpet; and how smoothly
> have we spread it forth!
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>        And of everything have we created pairs: that haply ye may reflect.
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> 51:50  Fly then to God: I come to you from him a plain warner.
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>        And set not up another god with God: I come to you from him a plain
> warner.
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>        Even thus came there no apostle to those who flourished before them, but
> they exclaimed, "Sorcerer, or Possessed."
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>        Have they made a legacy to one another of this scoff?  Yes, they are a
> rebel people.
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>        Turn away, then, from them, and thou shalt not incur reproach:
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>        Yet warn them, for, in truth, warning will profit the believers.
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>        I have not created Djinn and men, but that they worship me:
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>        I require not sustenance from them, neither require I that they feed me:
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>        Verily, God is the sole sustainer: possessed of might: the unshaken!
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>        Therefore to those who injure thee shall be a fate like the fate of
> their fellows of old.  Let them not challenge me to hasten it.
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> 51:60  Woe then to the infidels, because of their threatened day.
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> — *Sura  51 - The Scattering*