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THE QUR'ÂN.
LXXIX, 1-21.
THE CHAPTER OF THOSE WHO Tear Out.
(LXXIX. Mecca.) In the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
By those who tear out violently ! And by those who gaily release And by those who float through the air ! And the preceders who precede?! [5] And those who manage the affair !
On the day when the quaking: quakes which the following one shall succeed! Hearts on that day shall tremble; eyes thereon be humbled !
[10] They say, 'Shall we be sent back to our old course ? —What! when we are rotten bones ?' they say, 'That then were a losing return !'
But it will only be one scare, and lo! they will be on the surface !
[15] Has the story of Moses 4 come to you? when his Lord addressed him in the holy valley of Tuvâ, 'Go unto Pharaoh, verily, he is outrageous; and say, “ Hast thou a wish to purify thyself, and that I may guide thee to thy Lord, and thou mayest fear ?"
[20] So he showed him the greatest sign; but
* Referring to the angel of death and his assistants, who tear away the souls of the wicked violently, and gently release the souls of the good.
. The angels who precede the souls of the righteous to Paradise.
3 The trumpet blast at the last day, which shall make the universe quake.
• See Chapter XX, verse 12, p. 35.
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