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44:1  Ha, Meem.
44:2  By the Manifest Book!
44:3  We sent it down on a blessed night, and We have been warning [mankind].
44:4  Every definitive matter is resolved on it,
44:5  as an ordinance from Us. We have been sending [apostles]
44:6  as a mercy from your Lord—indeed He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing—
44:7  the Lord of the heavens and the earth, and whatever is between them, should you have conviction.
44:8  There is no god except Him: He gives life and brings death, your Lord and the Lord of your forefathers.
44:9  But they play around in doubt.
44:10  So watch out for the day when the sky brings on a manifest smoke,
44:11  enveloping the people. [They will cry out:] ‘This is a painful punishment.
44:12  Our Lord! Remove this punishment from us. Indeed we have believed!’
44:13  What will the admonition avail them, when a manifest apostle had already come to them,
44:14  but they turned away from him, and said, ‘A tutored madman?’
44:15  Indeed We will withdraw the punishment a little; but you will revert [to your earlier ways].
44:16  The day We shall strike with the most terrible striking, We will indeed take vengeance [on them].
44:17  Certainly We tried the people of Pharaoh before them, when a noble apostle came to them,
44:18  [saying,] ‘Give over the servants of Allah to me; indeed I am a trusted apostle [sent] to you.
44:19  Do not defy Allah. Indeed I bring you a manifest authority.
44:20  I seek the protection of my Lord and your Lord, lest you should stone me.
44:21  And if you do not believe me, keep out of my way.’
44:22  Then he invoked his Lord, [saying,] ‘These are indeed a guilty lot.’
44:23  [Allah told him,] ‘Set out by night with My servants; for you will be pursued.
44:24  Leave behind the sea unmoving; for they will be a drowned host.’
44:25  How many gardens and springs did they leave behind!
44:26  Fields and splendid places,
44:27  and the affluence wherein they rejoiced!
44:28  So it was; and We bequeathed them to another people.
44:29  So neither the sky wept for them, nor the earth; nor were they granted any respite.
44:30  Certainly We delivered the Children of Israel from the humiliating torment
44:31  of Pharaoh. Indeed, he was a tyrant among the transgressors.
44:32  Certainly We chose them knowingly above all the nations,
44:33  and We gave them some signs in which there was a manifest test.
44:34  These ones say,
44:35  ‘It will be only our first death, and we shall not be resurrected.
44:36  Bring our fathers back [to life], if you are truthful.’
44:37  Are they better, or the people of Tubba‘, and those who were before them? We destroyed them; indeed, they were guilty.
44:38  We did not create the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them for play.
44:39  We did not create them except with consummate wisdom; but most of them do not know.
44:40  Indeed the Day of Judgement is the tryst for them all,
44:41  the day when a friend will not avail a friend in any way, nor will they be helped,
44:42  except for him on whom Allah has mercy. Indeed He is the All-mighty, the All-merciful.
44:43  Indeed the tree of Zaqqum
44:44  will be the food of the sinful.
44:45  Like molten copper it will boil in their bellies,
44:46  seething like boiling water.
44:47  [The keepers of hell will be told,] ‘Seize him and drag him to the middle of hell,
44:48  then pour over his head boiling water as punishment,
44:49  [and tell them,] “Taste this! Indeed you are the [self-styled] mighty and noble!
44:50  This is what you used to doubt!’
44:51  Indeed the Godwary will be in a safe place,
44:52  amid gardens and springs,
44:53  dressed in fine silk and brocade, sitting face to face.
44:54  So shall it be, and We shall wed them to black-eyed houris.
44:55  Secure [from any kind of harm,] there they will call for every kind of fruit [they wish].
44:56  Other than the first death, they will not taste death therein, and He will save them from the punishment of hell
44:57  —a grace from your Lord. That is the great success.
44:58  Indeed We have made it simple in your language, so that they may take admonition.
44:59  So wait! They [too] are waiting.