# Sura  85 - The Starry

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> SURA LXXXV (85) - The Starry  (Mecca - 22 Verses        (XXVIII - 42)           
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        By the star-bespangled Heaven!
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>        By the promised Day!
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>        By the witness and the witnessed!
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>        Cursed the masters of the trench
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>        Of the fuel-fed fire,
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>        When they sat around it
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>        Witnesses of what they inflicted on the believers!
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>        Nor did they torment them but for their faith in God, the Mighty, the
> Praiseworthy:
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>        His the kingdom of the Heavens and of the Earth; and God is the witness
> of everything.
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> 85:10  Verily, those who vexed the believers, men and women, and repented not,
> doth the torment of Hell, and the torment of the burning, await.
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>        But for those who shall have believed and done the things that be right,
> are the Gardens beneath whose shades the rivers flow.  This is the immense
> bliss!
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>        Verily, right terrible will by thy Lord's vengeance!
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>        He it is who produceth all things, and causeth them to return;
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>        And is He the Indulgent, the Loving;
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>        Possessor of the Glorious throne;
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>        Worker of that he willeth.
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>        Hath not the story reached thee of the hosts
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>        Of Pharaoh and Themoud?
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>        Nay! the infidels are all for denial:
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> 85:20  But God surroundeth them from behind.
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>        Yet it is a glorious Koran,
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>        Written on the preserved Table.
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> — *Sura  85 - The Starry*