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LXXX, 23-LXXXI, 5.
Nay, he has not fulfilled his bidding!
But let man look unto his foods. [25] Verily, we have poured the water out in torrents: then we have cleft the earth asunder, and made to grow therefrom the grain, and the grape, and the hay, and the olive, and the palm, [30] and gardens closely planted, and fruits, and grass,-a provision for you and for your cattle!
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But when the stunning noise shall come, on the day when man shall flee from his brother [35] and his mother and his father and his spouse and his sons! Every man among them on that day shall have a business to employ him.
Faces on that day shall be bright,-laughing, joyous! [40] and faces shall have dust upon them,— darkness shall cover them! those are the wicked misbelievers
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THE CHAPTER OF THE FOLDING UP.
(LXXXI. Mecca.)
In the name of the merciful and compassionate God. When the sun is folded up,
And when the stars do fall,
And when the mountains are moved,
And when the she-camels ten months' gone with young shall be neglected1,
[5] And when the beasts shall be crowded together2,
1 Such camels being among the most valuable of an Arab's possessions, neglect of them must imply some terribly engrossing calamity.
2 The terrors of the judgment day will drive all the wild beasts together for mutual shelter.
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