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THE QUR'ÂN.
L, 31-43.
This is what ye are promised, to every one who turns frequently (to God) and keeps His commandments : who fears the Merciful in secret and brings a repentant heart.
Enter into it in peace : this is the day of eternity!' They shall have what they wish therein, and increase from us !
[35] How many a generation have we destroyed before them, mightier than they in prowess !
Pass through the land, is there any refuge? Verily, in that is a reminder to whomsoever has a heart, or gives ear, and is a witness thereto.
We did create the heavens and the earth and what is between the two in six days, and no weariness touched us ?
Be thou patient then of what they say, and celebrate the praises of thy Lord before the rising of the sun and before the setting. And through (some) of the night celebrate His praise and the additional adorations :
[40] And listen for the day when the crier shall cry from a near placet ;—the day when they shall hear the shouts in truth—that is the day of coming forth !
Verily, we quicken and we kill, and unto us the journey is !
On the day when the earth shall be cleft asunder
1 I. e. from the vengeance of God.
'A protest against the assertion that God rested on the seventh day.
s Two sigdahs used at the evening prayers, but not incumbent on the worshipper.
* I. e. a place from which all men may hear; generally supposed by Muslims to be the temple at Jerusalem.
6 The sound of the last trumpet.
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