# Sura  79 - Those Who Drag Forth

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> SURA LXXIX (79) - Those Who Drag Forth  (Mecca - 46)       (XXXV - 48)         
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        By those angels who drag forth souls with violence,
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>        And by those who with joyous release release them;
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>        By those who swim swimmingly along;
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>        By those who are foremost with foremost speed;
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>        By those who conduct the affairs of the universe!
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>        One day, the disturbing trumpet-blast shall disturb it,
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>        Which the second blast shall follow:
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>        Men's hearts on that day shall quake: -
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>        Their looks be downcast.
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> 79:10  The infidels will say, "Shall we indeed be restored as at first?
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>        What! when we have become rotten bones?"
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>        "This then," say they, "will be a return to loss."
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>        Verily, it will be but a single blast,
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>        And lo! they are on the surface of the earth.
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>        Hath the story of Moses reached thee?
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>        When his lord called to him in Towa's holy vale:
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>        Go to Pharaoh, for he hath burst all bounds:
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>        And say:  "Wouldest thou become just?
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>        Then I will guide thee to thy Lord that thou mayest fear him."
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> 79:20  And he showed him a great miracle, -
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>        But he treated him as an impostor, and rebelled;
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>        Then turned he his back all hastily,
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>        And gathered an assembly and proclaimed,
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>        And said, "I am your Lord supreme."
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>        So God visited on him the punishment of this life and of the other.
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>        Verily, herein is a lesson for him who hath the fear of God.
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>        Are ye the harder to create, or the heaven which he hath built?
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>        He reared its height and fashioned it,
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>        And gave darkness to its night, and brought out its light,
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> 79:30  And afterwards stretched forth the earth, -
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>        He brought forth from it its waters and its pastures;
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>        And set the mountains firm
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>        For you and your cattle to enjoy.
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>        But when the grand overthrow shall come,
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>        The day when a man shall reflect on the pains that he hath taken,
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>        And Hell shall be in full view of all who are looking on;
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>        Then, as for him who hath transgressed
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>        And hath chosen this present life,
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>        Verily, Hell - that shall be his dwelling-place:
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> 79:40  But as to him who shall have feared the majesty of his Lord, and
> shall have refrained his soul form lust,
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>        Verily, Paradise - that shall be his dwelling-place.
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>        They will ask thee of "the Hour," when will be its fixed time?
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>        But what knowledge hast thou of it?
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>        Its period is known only to thy Lord;
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>        And thou art only charged with the warning of those who fear it.
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>        On the day when they shall see it, it shall seem to them as though they
> had not tarried in the tomb, longer than its evening or its morn.
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> — *Sura  79 - Those Who Drag Forth*