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they the Heavens and Earth? Nay, rather, they have no faith.

      Hold they thy Lord's treasures? Bear they the rule supreme?

      Have they a ladder for hearing the angels? Let any one who hath heard them bring a clear proof of it.

      Hath God daughters and ye sons?

      Asketh thou pay of them? they are themselves weighed down with debts.

      Have they such a knowledge of the secret things that they can write them down?

      Desire they to lay snares for thee? But the snared ones shall be they who do not believe.

      Have they any God beside God? Glory be to God above what they join with Him.

      And should they see a fragment of the heaven falling down, they would say,

       "It is only a dense cloud."

      Leave them then until they come face to face with the day when they shall swoon away:

      A day in which their snares shall not at all avail them, neither shall they be helped.

      And verily, beside this is there a punishment for the evildoers: but most of them know it not.

      Wait thou patiently the judgment of thy Lord, for thou art in our eye; and celebrate the praise of thy Lord when thou risest up,

      And in the night-season: Praise him when the stars are setting.

      SURA XLV. THE INEVITABLE

       Table of Contents

      MECCA.-96 Verses

      In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

      None shall treat that sudden coming as a lie:

      Day that shall abase! Day that shall exalt!

      When the earth shall be shaken with a shock,

      And the mountains shall be crumbled with a crumbling,

      And shall become scattered dust,

      And the people of the left hand-Oh! how wretched shall be the people of the left hand!

      These are they who shall be brought nigh to God,

      In gardens of delight;

      A crowd of the former

      And few of the latter generations;

      On inwrought couches

      Reclining on them face to face:

      Aye-blooming youths go round about to them

      With goblets and ewers and a cup of flowing wine;

      Their brows ache not from it, nor fails the sense:

      And with such fruits as shall please them best,

      And with flesh of such birds, as they shall long for:

      And theirs shall be the Houris, with large dark eyes, like pearls hidden in their shells,

      In recompense of their labours past.

      No vain discourse shall they hear therein, nor charge of sin,

      But only the cry, "Peace! Peace!"

      And the people of the right hand-oh! how happy shall be the people of the right hand!

      And in extended shade,

      And by flowing waters,

      Unfailing, unforbidden,

      And on lofty couches.

      Of a rare creation have we created the Houris,

      And we have made them ever virgins,

      For the people of the right hand,

      A crowd of the former,

      But the people of the left hand-oh! how wretched shall be the people of the left hand!

      And in the shadow of a black smoke,

      For they truly, ere this, were blessed with worldly goods,

      But persisted in heinous sin,

      And were wont to say,

      "What! after we have died, and become dust and bones, shall we be raised?

      And our fathers, the men of yore?"

      SAY: Aye, the former and the latter:

      Gathered shall they all be for the time of a known day.

      Then ye, O ye the erring, the gainsaying,

      Shall surely eat of the tree Ez-zakkoum,

      And fill your bellies with it,

      And thereupon shall ye drink boiling water,

      And ye shall drink as the thirsty camel drinketh.

      This shall be their repast in the day of reckoning!

      Is it ye who create them? or are we their creator?

      It is we who have decreed that death should be among you;

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