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In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
- And corn-fields and noble buildings.
- And wealth (and conveniences of life) wherein they had taken such delight!
- Thus (was their end)! And We made other people inherit (those things)!
- And neither heaven nor earth shed a tear over them: nor were they given a respite (again).
- We did deliver aforetime the Children of Israel from humiliating Punishment
- Inflicted by Pharaoh for he was arrogant (even) among inordinate transgressors.
- And We chose them aforetime above the nations knowingly
- And granted them Signs in which there was a manifest trial.
- As to these (Quraish) they say forsooth:
- "There is nothing beyond our first death and we shall not be raised again.
- "Then bring (back) our forefathers if what ye say is true!"
- What! are they better than the people of Tubba and those who were before them? We destroyed them because they were guilty of sin.
- We created not the heavens the earth and all between them merely in (idle) sport:
- We created them not except for just ends: but most of them do not understand.
- Verily the Day of Sorting Out is the time appointed for all of them
- The Day when no protector can avail his client in aught and no help can they receive.
- Except such as receive Allah's Mercy: for He is exalted in Might Most Merciful.
- Verily the tree of Zaqqum
- Will be the food of the Sinful
- Like molten brass; it will boil in their insides
- Like the boiling of scalding water.
- (A voice will cry:) "Seize ye him and drag him into the midst of the Blazing Fire!
- "Then pour over his head the Penalty of Boiling Water;
- "Taste thou (this)! Truly wast thou Mighty full of honor!
- "Truly this is what ye used to doubt!"
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