# Sura  74 - The Enwrapped

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> SURA LXXIV (74) - The Enwrapped   (Mecca - 55)                (II -  21)     
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        O Thou, enwrapped in thy mantle!
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>        Arise and warn!
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>        Thy Lord - magnify Him!
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>        Thy raiment - purify it!
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>        The abomination - flee it!
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>        And bestow not favours that thou mayest receive again with increase;
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>        And for thy Lord wait thou patiently.
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>        For when there shall be a trump on the trumpet,
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>        That shall be a distressful day,
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> 74:10  A day, to the Infidels, devoid of ease.
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>        Leave me alone to deal with him whom I have created,
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>        And on whom I have bestowed vast riches,
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>        And sons dwelling before him,
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>        And for whom I have smoothed all things smoothly down; -
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>        Yet desireth he that I shall add more!
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>        But no! because to our signs he is a foe
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>        I will lay grievous woes upon him.
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>        For he plotted and he planned!
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>        May he be cursed!  How he planned!
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> 74:20  Again, may be be cursed!  How he planned!
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>        Then looked he around him,
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>        Then frowned and scowled,
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>        Then turned his back and swelled with disdain,
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>        And said, "This is merely magic that will be wrought;
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>        It is merely the word of a mortal."
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>        We will surely cast him in Hell-fire.
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>        And who shall teach thee what Hell-fire is?
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>        It leaveth nought, it spareth nought,
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>        Blackening the skin.
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> 74:30  Over it are nineteen angels.
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>        None but angels have we made guardians of the fire: nor have we made
> this to be their number but to perplex the unbelievers, and that they who
> possess the Scriptures may be certain of the truth of the Koran, and that they
> who believe may increase their faith;
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>        And that they to whom the Scriptures have been given, and the
> believers,may  not doubt;
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>        And that the infirm of heart and the unbelievers may say, What meaneth
> God by this parable?
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>        Thus God misleadeth whom He will, and whom He will doth He guide aright:
> and none knoweth the armies of thy Lord but Himself: and this is no other than
> a warning to mankind.
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>        Nay, by the Moon!
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>        By the Night when it retreateth!
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>        By the Morn when it brighteneth!
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>        Hell is one of the most grievous woes,
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>        Fraught with warning toman,
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> 74:40  To him among you who desireth to press forward, or to remain behind.
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>        For its own works lieth every soul in pledge.  But they of God's right
> hand
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>        In their gardens shall ask of the wicked; -
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>        "What hath cast you into Hell-fire?"{
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>        They will say, "We were not of those who prayed,
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>        And we were not of those who fed the poor,
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>        And we plunged into vain disputes with vain disputers,
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>        And we rejected as a lie, the day of reckoning,
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>        Till the certainty came upon us" -
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>        And intercession of the interceders shall not avail them.
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> 74:50  Then what hath come to them that they turn aside from the Warning
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>        As if they affrighted asses fleeing from a lion?
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>        And every one of them would fain have open pages given to him out of
> Heaven.
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>        It shall not be.  They fear not the life to come.
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>        It shall not be.  For this Koran is warning enough.  And whoso will, it
> warneth him.
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>        But not unless God please, shall they be warned.  Meet is He to be
> feared.  Meet is forgiveness in Him.
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> — *Sura  74 - The Enwrapped*