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LXXVII, 12-41. THE CHAPTER OF THOSE SENT.
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For what day is the appointment made ? For the day of decision ! and what shall make thee
know what the decision is ? · [15] Woe on that day for those who say it is
a lie! Have we not destroyed those of yore, and then
followed them up with those of the latter day?
Thus do we with the sinners. Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie ! [20] Did we not create you from contemptible water,
and place it in a sure depository unto a certain
decreed term ? for we are able and well able too! Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! [25] Have we not made for them the earth to hold
the living and the dead? and set thereon firm mountains reared aloft ? and given you to drink
water in streams? Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! Go off to that which ye did call a lie! [30] Go off . to the shadow of three columns, that shall not
shade nor avail against the flame! Verily, it throws off sparks like towers, -as though they
were yellow camels ! Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! [35] This is the day when they may not speak, -
when they are not permitted to excuse them
selves!
Woe on that day for those who say it is a lie! This is the day of decision ! We have assembled you with those of yore; if ye have any stratagem
employ it now! [40] Woe on that day for those who say it is
a lie! Verily, the pious are amid shades and springs and
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