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the fruit-trees and the green pasture, for you and for your cattle to
delight in.
But when the deafening cry comes, on that day each man will
forsake his brother, his mother and his father, his wife and his
children: for each one of themwill on that day have enough concern of
his own.
On that day there shall be beaming faces, smiling and joyful.And on
that day there shall be faces covered with dust and veiled with
darkness. These shall (be the faces of) the wicked and the unbelieving.
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81:1
hen the sun is folded up; when the stars fall down and the
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mountains are blown away; when camels big with their
young are left untended and the wild beasts are brought
together; when the seas are burning and men's souls are reunited (with
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their bodies); when the infant girl, buried alive, is asked for what
crime she was slain; when the records of men's deeds are laid open and
heaven is stripped bare; when Hell burns fiercely and Paradise is
brought near: then each soul shall knowwhat it has done.
1. A reference to the practice of burying infant girls alive in Pre-Islamic Arabia.
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Sura 81
"Al-Takwir"
THE FOLDING UP
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
THE FOLDING UP
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THE QURAN