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They will rush forward, craning their necks, unable to divert their eyes, a gaping void in their hearts.

So warn people of the Day when punishment will come to them, and when the disbelievers will say, ‘Our Lord, give us a little more time: we shall answer Your call and follow the messengers.’ Did you [disbelievers] not swear in the past that your power would have no end?

You lived in the same places as others who wronged themselves before, and you were clearly shown how We dealt with them––We gave you many examples.

They made their plots, but, even if their plots had been able to move mountains, God had the answer.

So do not think [Prophet] that God will break His promise to His messengers: He is mighty, and capable of retribution.

One Day- when the earth is turned into another earth, the heavens into another heaven, and people all appear before God, the One, the Overpowering-

you [Prophet] will see the guilty on that Day, bound together in fetters,

in garments of pitch, faces covered in fire.

[All will be judged] so that God may reward each soul as it deserves: God is swift in His reckoning.

This is a message to all people, so that they may be warned by it, and know that He is the only God, and so that those who have minds may take heed.