Translation of the Holy Koran by Shakir

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Sura 77 Aya 1 to 50
	1		[ 77: 1 ] I swear by the emissary winds, sent one after another ( for men's benefit ),
	2		[ 77: 2 ] By the raging hurricanes,
	3		[ 77: 3 ] Which scatter clouds to their destined places,
	4		[ 77: 4 ] Then separate them one from another,
	5		[ 77: 5 ] Then I swear by the angels who bring down the revelation,
	6		[ 77: 6 ] To clear or to warn.
	7		[ 77: 7 ] Most surely what you are threatened with must come to pass.
	8		[ 77: 8 ] So when the stars are made to lose their light,
	9		[ 77: 9 ] And when the heaven is rent asunder,
	10		[ 77: 10 ] And when the mountains are carried away as dust,
	11		[ 77: 11 ] And when the messengers are gathered at their appointed time
	12		[ 77: 12 ] To what day is the doom fixed?
	13		[ 77: 13 ] To the day of decision.
	14		[ 77: 14 ] And what will make you comprehend what the day of decision is?
	15		[ 77: 15 ] Woe on that day to the rejecters.
	16		[ 77: 16 ] Did We not destroy the former generations?
	17		[ 77: 17 ] Then did We follow them up with later ones.
	18		[ 77: 18 ] Even thus shall We deal with the guilty.
	19		[ 77: 19 ] Woe on that day to the rejecters.
	20		[ 77: 20 ] Did We not create you from contemptible water?
	21		[ 77: 21 ] Then We placed it in a secure resting-place,
	22		[ 77: 22 ] Till an appointed term,
	23		[ 77: 23 ] So We proportion it-- how well are We at proportioning ( things ).
	24		[ 77: 24 ] Woe on that day to the rejecters.
	25		[ 77: 25 ] Have We not made the earth to draw together to itself,
	26		[ 77: 26 ] The living and the dead,
	27		[ 77: 27 ] And made therein lofty mountains, and given you to drink of sweet water?
	28		[ 77: 28 ] Woe on that day to the rejecters.
	29		[ 77: 29 ] Walk on to that which you called a lie.
	30		[ 77: 30 ] Walk on to the covering having three branches,
	31		[ 77: 31 ] Neither having the coolness of the shade nor availing against the flame.
	32		[ 77: 32 ] Surely it sends up sparks like palaces,
	33		[ 77: 33 ] As if they were tawny camels.
	34		[ 77: 34 ] Woe on that day to the rejecters.
	35		[ 77: 35 ] This is the day on which they shall not speak,
	36		[ 77: 36 ] And permission shall not be given to them so that they should offer excuses.
	37		[ 77: 37 ] Woe on that day to the rejecters.
	38		[ 77: 38 ] This is the day of decision: We have gathered you and those of yore.
	39		[ 77: 39 ] So if you have a plan, plan against Me ( now ).
	40		[ 77: 40 ] Woe on that day to the rejecters.
	41		[ 77: 41 ] Surely those who guard ( against evil ) shall be amid shades and fountains,
	42		[ 77: 42 ] And fruits such as they desire.
	43		[ 77: 43 ] Eat and drink pleasantly because of what you did.
	44		[ 77: 44 ] Surely thus do We reward the doers of good.
	45		[ 77: 45 ] Woe on that day to the rejecters.
	46		[ 77: 46 ] Eat and enjoy yourselves for a little; surely you are guilty.
	47		[ 77: 47 ] Woe on that day to the rejecters.
	48		[ 77: 48 ] And where it is said to them: Bow down, they do not bow down.
	49		[ 77: 49 ] Woe on that day to the rejecters.
	50		[ 77: 50 ] In what announcement, then, after it, will they believe?