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89:3
by the Even and the Odd,
89:4
by the night when it departs!
89:5
Is there an oath in that for one possessing intellect?
89:6
Have you not regarded how your Lord dealt with [the people of] ‘Ad,
89:7
[and] Iram, [the city] of the pillars,
89:8
the like of which was not created among cities,
89:9
and [the people of] Thamud, who hollowed out the rocks in the valley,
89:10
and Pharaoh, the impaler
89:11
—those who rebelled [against Allah] in their cities
89:12
and caused much corruption in them,
89:13
so your Lord poured on them lashes of punishment.
89:14
Indeed your Lord is in ambush.
89:15
As for man, whenever his Lord tests him, and grants him honour, and blesses him, he says, ‘My Lord has honoured me.’
89:16
But when He tests him and tightens for him his provision, he says, ‘My Lord has humiliated me.’
89:17
No indeed! No, you do not honour the orphan,
89:18
and do not urge the feeding of the needy.
89:19
You eat the inheritance rapaciously,
89:20
and love wealth with much fondness.
89:21
No indeed! When the earth is levelled to a plain,
89:22
and your Lord [’s edict] arrives with the angels in ranks,
89:23
the day when hell is brought [near], man will take admonition on that day, but what will that admonition avail him?
89:24
He will say, ‘Alas, had I sent ahead for my life [in the Hereafter]!’
89:25
On that day none shall punish as He punishes,
89:26
and none shall bind as He binds.
89:28
Return to your Lord, pleased and pleasing!
89:29
Then enter among My servants,
89:30
and enter My paradise!’
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