Al-Qalam

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leaving no thought for Allah’s Will.1
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Then it was struck by a torment from your Lord while they slept,
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so it was reduced to ashes.
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Then by daybreak they called out to each other,
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˹saying,˺ “Go early to your harvest, if you want to pick ˹all˺ the fruit.”
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So they went off, whispering to one another,
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“Do not let any poor person enter your garden today.”
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And they proceeded early, totally fixated on their purpose.
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But when they saw it ˹devastated˺, they cried, “We must have lost ˹our˺ way!
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In fact, we have been deprived ˹of our livelihood˺.”
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