# Sura  73 - The Enfolded

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> SURA LXXIII (73) - The Enfolded   (Mecca - 20 Verses)          (III - 24)     
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        O Thou enfolded in thy mantle,
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>        Stand up all night, except a small port of it, for prayer:
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>        Half or curtail the half a little, -
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>        Or add to it:  And with measured tone intone the Koran,
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>        For we shall devolve on thee weighty words.
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>        Verily, at the oncoming of night are devout impressions strongest, and
> words are most collected;
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>        But in the day time thou hast continual employ -
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>        And commemorate the name of thy Lord, and devote thyself to Him with
> entire devotion.
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>        Lord of the East and of the West!  No God is there but He!  Take Him for
> thy protector,
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> 73:10  And endure what they say with patience, and depart from them with a
> decorous departure.
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>        And let Me alone with the gainsayers, rich in the pleasures of this
> life; and bear thou with them yet a little while:
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>        For with Us are strong fetters, and a flaming fire,
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>        And food that choketh, and a sore torment.
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>        The day cometh when the earth and the mountains shall be shaken; and the
> mountains shall become a loose sand heap.
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>        Verily, we have sent you an Apostle to witness against you, even as we
> sent an Apostle to Pharaoh:
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>        But Pharaoh rebelled against the Apostle, and we therefore laid hold on
> him with a severe chastisement.
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>        And how, if ye believe not, will you screen yourselves from the day that
> shall turn children greyheaded?
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>        The very heaven shall be reft asunder by it:  this threat shall be
> carried into effect.
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>        Lo! this is a warning.  Let him then who will, take the way to his Lord.
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> 73:20  Of a truth, thy Lord knoweth that thou prayest almost two-thirds, or
> half, or a third of the night, as do a part of thy followers.  But God
> measureth the night and the day: - He knoweth that ye cannot count its hours
> aright, and therefore, turneth to you mercifully.  Recite then so much of the
> Koran as may be easy to you.  He knoweth that there will be some among you
> sick, while others travel through the earth in quest of the bounties of God;
> and other do battle in his cause.  Recite therefore so much of it as may be
> easy.  And observe the Prayers and pay the legal Alms, and lend God a liberal
> loan: for whatever good works ye send on before for your own behoof, ye shall
> find with God.  This will be best and richest in the recompense.  And seek the
> forgiveness of God: verily, God is forgiving, Merciful.
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> — *Sura  73 - The Enfolded*