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By the heaven and the nightly star!
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And what will make you realize what the nightly star is?
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˹It is˺ the star of piercing brightness.
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There is no soul without a vigilant angel ˹recording everything˺.
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Let people then consider what they were created from!
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˹They were˺ created from a spurting fluid,
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stemming from between the backbone and the ribcage.1
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Surely He is fully capable of bringing them back ˹to life˺
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on the Day all secrets will be disclosed.
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Then one will have neither power nor ˹any˺ helper.
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By the sky with its recurring cycles,
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and the earth with its sprouting plants!
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Surely this ˹Quran˺ is a decisive word,
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and is not to be taken lightly.
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They are certainly devising ˹evil˺ plans,
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but I too am planning.
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So bear with the disbelievers ˹O Prophet˺. Let them be for ˹just˺ a little while.
