The Merciful
taught the Qur'an
He created man
taught him plain speech
The sun and the moon have their appointed time
The herbs and the trees adore
And the heavens, He raised them and set the balance
that ye should not be outrageous in the balance
But weigh ye aright, and stint not the balance
And the earth He has set it for living creatures
therein are fruits and palms, with sheaths
and grain with chaff and frequent shoots
Then which of your Lord's bounties will ye twain deny
He created men of crackling clay like the potters
And He created the ginn from smokeless fire
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The Lord of the two easts and the Lord of the two wests
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He has let loose the two seas that meet together
between them is a barrier they cannot pass
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He brings forth from each pearls both large and small
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His are the ships which rear aloft in the sea like mountains
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Every one upon it is transient
but the face of thy Lord endowed with majesty and honour shall endure
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Of Him whosoever is in the heaven and the earth does beg; every day He is in (some fresh) business
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We shall be at leisure for you, O ye two weighty ones
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O assembly of ginns and mankind! if ye are able to pass through the confines of heaven and earth then pass through them!- ye cannot pass through save by authority
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There shall be sent against you a flash or fire, and molten copper, and ye shall not be helped
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And when the heaven is rent asunder and become rosy red - (melting) like grease
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On that day neither man nor ginn shall be asked about his crime
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The sinners shall be known by their marks, and shall be seized by the forelock and the feet
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'This is hell, which the sinners did call a lie
they shall circulate between it and water boiling quite!
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But for him who fears the station of his Lord are gardens twain
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Both furnished with branching trees
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In each are flowing springs
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In each are, of every fruit, two kinds
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Reclining on beds the linings of which are of brocade, and the fruit of the two gardens within reach to cull
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Therein are maids of modest glances whom no man nor ginn has deflowered before
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As though they were rubies and pearls
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Is the reward of goodness aught but goodness
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And besides these, are gardens twain
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With dark green foliage
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In each two gushing springs
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In each fruit and palms and pomegranates
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In them maidens best and fairest
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Bright and large-eyed maids kept in their tents
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Whom no man nor ginn has deflowered before them
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Reclining on green cushions and beautiful carpets
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Blessed be the name of thy Lord possessed of majesty and honour