# Sura  89 - The Daybreak

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> SURA LXXXIX (89) - The Daybreak  (Mecca - 30 Verses)       (XXXIX - 54)      
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        By the Daybreak and ten nights.
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>        By that which is single,
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>        By the night when it pursues its course!
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>        Is there not in this an oath becoming a man of sense?
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>        Hast thou not seen how thy Lord dealt with Ad,
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>        At Irem adorned with pillars,
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>        Whose like have not been reared in these lands!
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>        And with Themoud who hewed out the rocks in the valley;
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>        And with Pharaoh the impaler;
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> 89:10  Who all committed excesses in the lands,
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>        And multiplied wickedness therein.
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>        Wherefore thy Lord let loose on them the scourge of chastisement,
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>        For thy Lord standeth on a watch tower.
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>        As to man, when his Lord trieth him and honoureth him and is bounteous
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>        Then saith he, "My Lord honoureth me:"
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>        But when he proveth him and limiteth his gifts to him,
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>        He saith, "My Lord despiseth me."
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>        Aye.  But ye honour not the orphan,
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>        Nor urge ye one another to feed the poor,
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> 89:20  And ye devour heritages, devouring greedily,
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>        And ye love riches with exceeding love.
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>        Aye.  But when the earth shall be crushed with crushing, crushing,
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>        And thy Lord shall come and the angels rank on rank,
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>        And Hell on that day shall be moved up, - Man shall on that day remember
> himself.  But how shall remembrance help him?
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>        He shall say, Oh! would that I had prepared for this my life!  On that
> day none shall punish as God punisheth,
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>        And none shall bind with such bonds as He.
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>        Oh, thou soul which art at rest,
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>        Return to thy Lord, pleased, and pleasing him:
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>        Enter thou among my servants,
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> 89:30  And enter thou my Paradise.
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> — *Sura  89 - The Daybreak*