Ayetbul | Kuran Mealleri | Quran | Muhammad Asad meali

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NAY! I call to witness the Day of Resurrection!

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But nay! I call to witness the accusing voice of man's own conscience!

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Does man think that We cannot [resurrect him and] bring his bones together again?

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Yea indeed, We are able to make whole his very finger-tips!

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None the less man chooses to deny what lies ahead of him,

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asking [derisively], "When is that Resurrection Day to be?"

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But [on that Day, ] when the eyesight is by fear confounded,

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and the moon is darkened,

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and the sun and the moon are brought together

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on that Day will man exclaim "Whither to flee?"

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But nay: no refuge [for thee, O man]!

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With thy Sustainer, on that Day, the journey's end will be!

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Man will be apprised, on that Day, of what he has done and what he has left undone:

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nay, but man shall against himself be an eye-witness,

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even though he may veil himself in excuses.

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MOVE NOT thy tongue in haste, [repeating the words of the revelation:]

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for, behold, it is for Us to gather it [in thy heart,] and to cause it to be read [as it ought to be read].

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Thus, when We recite it, follow thou its wording [with all thy mind]:

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and then, behold, it will be for Us to make its meaning clear.

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NAY, but [most of] you love this fleeting life,

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and give no thought to the life to come [and to Judgment Day]!

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Some faces will on that Day be bright with happiness,

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looking up to their Sustainer;

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and some faces will on that Day be overcast with despair,

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knowing that a crushing calamity is about to befall them.

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NAY, but when [the last breath] comes up to the throat [of a dying man],

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and people ask, "Is there any wizard [that could save him]?"

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the while he [himself] knows that this is the parting,

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and is enwrapped in the pangs of death

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at that time towards thy Sustainer does he feel impelled to turn!

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[Useless, though, will be his repentance: for [as long as he was alive] he did not accept the truth, nor did he pray [for enlightenment],

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but, on the contrary, he gave the lie to the truth and turned away [from it],

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and then went arrogantly back to what he had come from.

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[And yet, O man, thine end comes hourly] nearer unto thee, and nearer –

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and ever nearer unto thee, and nearer!

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DOES MAN, then, think that he is to be left to himself to go about at will?

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Was he not once a [mere] drop of sperm that had been spilt,

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and thereafter became a germ-cell - whereupon He created and formed [it] in accordance with what [it] was meant to be,

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and fashioned out of it the two sexes, the male and the female?

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Is not He, then; able to bring the dead back to life?

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