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THE QUR'ÂN. LXXVI, 25-LXXVII, 11.
night, and adore Him, and celebrate His praises the whole night long.
Verily, these love the transitory life, and leave behind them a heavy day!
We created them and strengthened their joints; and if we please we can exchange for the likes of them in their stead. Verily, this is a memorial, and whoso will, let him take unto his Lord a way.
[30] But ye will not please except God please! Verily, God is knowing, wise.
He makes whomsoever He pleases to enter into His mercy; but the unjust He has prepared for them a grievous woe!
THE CHAPTER OF THOSE SENT.
(LXXVII. Mecca.)
In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
By those sent in a series1!
And by those who speed swiftly!
And by the dispensers abroad!
And by the separators apart!
[5] And by those who instil the reminder, as an excuse or warning!
Verily, what ye are threatened with shall surely
happen!
And when the stars shall be erased!
And when the heaven shall be cleft!
[10] And when the mountains shall be winnowed! And when the apostles shall have a time appointed for them!
1 Either angels or winds, or as some interpret the passage, the verses of the Qur'ân.
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