Page 584
An-Nazi'atJuz 30 · Hizb 59
Translation of page 584
- 79:17
"Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.
- 79:18
And say to him, 'Would you [be willing to] purify yourself
- 79:19
And let me guide you to your Lord so you would fear [Him]?'"
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And he showed him the greatest sign,
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But he [i.e., Pharaoh] denied and disobeyed.
- 79:22
Then he turned his back, striving [i.e., plotting].
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And he gathered [his people] and called out
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And said, "I am your most exalted lord."
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So Allāh seized him in exemplary punishment for the last and the first [transgression]..
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Indeed in that is a lesson [i.e., warning] for whoever would fear [Allāh].
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Are you a more difficult creation or is the heaven? He [i.e., Allāh] constructed it.
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He raised its ceiling and proportioned it.
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And He darkened its night and extracted its brightness.
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And after that He spread the earth.
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He extracted from it its water and its pasture,
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And the mountains He set firmly
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As enjoyment [i.e., provision] for you and your grazing livestock.
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But when there comes the greatest Overwhelming Calamity -
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The Day when man will remember that for which he strove,
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And Hellfire will be exposed for [all] those who see -
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So as for he who transgressed
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And preferred the life of the world,
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Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.
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But as for he who feared the position of his Lord and prevented the soul from [unlawful] inclination,
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Then indeed, Paradise will be [his] refuge.
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They ask you, [O Muḥammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?
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In what [position] are you that you should mention it?
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To your Lord is its finality.
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You are only a warner for those who fear it.
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It will be, on the Day they see it, as though they had not remained [in the world] except for an afternoon or a morning thereof.