# 44. ad-Dukhan: The Evident Smoke

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> 44. ad-Dukhan: The Evident Smoke
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> 1 Ha. Mim. 
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> 2 By the Scripture that maketh plain 
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> 3 Lo! We revealed it on a blessed night - Lo! We are ever warning - 
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> 4 Whereon every wise command is made clear 
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> 5 As a command from Our presence - Lo! We are ever sending - 
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> 6 A mercy from thy Lord. Lo! He, even He is the Hearer, the Knower, 
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> 7 Lord of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them, if ye would be sure. 
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> 8 There is no God save Him. He quickeneth and giveth death; your Lord and Lord of your forefathers. 
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> 9 Nay, but they play in doubt. 
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> 10 But watch thou (O Muhammad) for the day when the sky will produce visible smoke 
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> 11 That will envelop the people. This will be a painful torment. 
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> 12 (Then they will say): Our Lord relieve us of the torment. Lo! we are believers. 
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> 13 How can there be remembrance for them, when a messenger making plain (the Truth) had already come unto them, 
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> 14 And they had turned away from him and said: One taught (by others), a madman ? 
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> 15 Lo! We withdraw the torment a little. Lo! ye return (to disbelief). 
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> 16 On the day when We shall seize them with the greater seizure, (then) in truth We shall punish. 
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> 17 And verily We tried before them Pharaoh's folk, when there came unto them a noble messenger, 
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> 18 Saying: Give up to me the slaves of Allah. Lo! I am a faithful messenger unto you. 
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> 19 And saying: Be not proud against Allah. Lo! I bring you a clear warrant. 
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> 20 And lo! I have sought refuge in my Lord and your Lord lest ye stone me to death. 
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> 21 And if ye put no faith in me, then let me go. 
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> 22 And he cried unto his Lord, (saying): These are guilty folk. 
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> 23 Then (his Lord commanded): Take away My slaves by night. Lo! ye will be followed, 
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> 24 And leave the sea behind at rest, for lo! they are a drowned host. 
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> 25 How many were the gardens and the watersprings that they left behind, 
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> 26 And the cornlands and the goodly sites 
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> 27 And pleasant things wherein they took delight! 
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> 28 Even so (it was), and We made it an inheritance for other folk; 
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> 29 And the heaven and the earth wept not for them, nor were they reprieved. 
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> 30 And We delivered the Children of Israel from the shameful doom; 
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> 31 (We delivered them) from Pharaoh. Lo! he was a tyrant of the wanton ones. 
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> 32 And We chose them, purposely, above (all) creatures. 
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> 33 And We gave them portents wherein was a clear trial. 
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> 34 Lo! these, forsooth, are saying: 
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> 35 There is naught but our first death, and we shall not be raised again. 
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> 36 Bring back our fathers, if ye speak the truth! 
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> 37 Are they better, or the folk of Tubb'a and those before them ? We destroyed them, for surely they were guilty. 
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> 38 And We created not the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, in play. 
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> 39 We created them not save with truth; but most of them know not. 
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> 40 Assuredly the Day of Decision is the term for all of them, 
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> 41 A day when friend can in naught avail friend, nor can they be helped, 
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> 42 Save him on whom Allah hath mercy. Lo! He is the Mighty, the Merciful. 
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> 43 Lo! the tree of Zaqqum, 
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> 44 The food of the sinner! 
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> 45 Like molten brass, it seetheth in their bellies 
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> 46 As the seething of boiling water. 
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> 47 (And it will be said): Take him and drag him to the midst of hell, 
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> 48 Then pour upon his head the torment of boiling water. 
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> 49 (Saying): Taste! Lo! thou wast forsooth the mighty, the noble! 
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> 50 Lo! this is that whereof ye used to doubt. 
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> 51 Lo! those who kept their duty will be in a place secured. 
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> 52 Amid gardens and watersprings, 
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> 53 Attired in silk and silk embroidery, facing one another. 
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> 54 Even so (it will be). And We shall wed them unto fair ones with wide, lovely eyes. 
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> 55 They call therein for every fruit in safety. 
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> 56 They taste not death therein, save the first death. And He hath saved them from the doom of hell, 
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> 57 A bounty from thy Lord. That is the supreme triumph. 
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> 58 And We have made (this Scripture) easy in thy language only that they may heed. 
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> 59 Wait then (O Muhammad). Lo! they (too) are waiting.
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> — *44. ad-Dukhan: The Evident Smoke*