# 75. al-Qiyamah: The Resurrection

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> 75. al-Qiyamah: The Resurrection
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> 1 Nay, I swear by the Day of Resurrection; 
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> 2 Nay, I swear by the accusing soul (that this Scripture is true). 
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> 3 Thinketh man that We shall not assemble his bones ? 
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> 4 Yea, verily. We are Able to restore his very fingers! 
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> 5 But man would fain deny what is before him. 
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> 6 He asketh: When will be this Day of Resurrection ? 
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> 7 But when sight is confounded 
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> 8 And the moon is eclipsed 
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> 9 And sun and moon are united, 
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> 10 On that day man will cry: Whither to flee! 
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> 11 Alas! No refuge! 
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> 12 Unto thy Lord is the recourse that day. 
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> 13 On that day man is told the tale of that which he hath sent before and left behind. 
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> 14 Oh, but man is a telling witness against himself, 
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> 15 Although he tender his excuses. 
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> 16 Stir not thy tongue herewith to hasten it. 
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> 17 Lo! upon Us (resteth) the putting together thereof and the reading thereof. 
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> 18 And when We read it, follow thou the reading; 
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> 19 Then lo! upon Us (resteth) the explanation thereof. 
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> 20 Nay, but ye do love the fleeting Now 
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> 21 And neglect the Hereafter. 
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> 22 That day will faces be resplendent, 
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> 23 Looking toward their Lord; 
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> 24 And that day will other faces be despondent, 
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> 25 Thou wilt know that some great disaster is about to fall on them. 
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> 26 Nay, but when the life cometh up to the throat 
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> 27 And men say: Where is the wizard (who can save him now) ? 
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> 28 And he knoweth that it is the parting; 
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> 29 And agony is heaped on agony; 
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> 30 Unto thy Lord that day will be the driving. 
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> 31 For he neither trusted, nor prayed. 
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> 32 But he denied and flouted. 
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> 33 Then went he to his folk with glee. 
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> 34 Nearer unto thee and nearer, 
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> 35 Again nearer unto thee and nearer (is the doom). 
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> 36 Thinketh man that he is to be left aimless ? 
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> 37 Was he not a drop of fluid which gushed forth ? 
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> 38 Then he became a clot; then (Allah) shaped and fashioned 
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> 39 And made of him a pair, the male and female. 
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> 40 Is not He (Who doeth so) Able to bring the dead to life ?
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> — *75. al-Qiyamah: The Resurrection*