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| 25. They will be asked, `What is the matter with you that you help not one another ?' 26. Nay, on that day they will surrender themselves completely. 27. And some of them will address others, questioning one another. 28. They will say, `Verily you used to come to us from the right.' 29. The others will answer, `Nay, you yourselves were not believers, 30. `And we had no power over you; but you yourselves were a transgressing people; 31. `Now the word of our Lord has been fulfilled against us that we must taste the punishment; 32. `And we caused you to go astray for we ourselves had gone astray.' 33. Truly, on that day they will all be sharers in the punishment. 34. Surely, thus do WE deal with the guilty. 35. For when it was said to them, `There is no god but ALLAH, they behaved arrogantly, 36. And said, `Shall we give up our gods for a mad poet ?' 37. Nay, he has brought the truth and has testified to the truth of all the Messengers. 38. You shall, surely, taste the painful punishment; 39. And you will be requited only for what you have wrought 40. Save the chosen servants of ALLAH; 41. They will have a known provision: 42. Fruits; and they shall be honoured, 43. In the Gardens of Bliss, 44. Seated on thrones, facing one another; 45. They will be served round with a cup from a flowing fountain, 46. Sparkling white, delicious to the drinkers; 47. Wherein there will be no intoxication, nor will they be exhausted thereby. 48. And with them will be chaste women, with restrained looks and large beautiful eyes; 49. As though they were sheltered eggs. 50. Then some of them will address the others, questioning one another. 51. A speaker from among them will say, `I had an intimate companion, |
