In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
“Nothing is the life of this world but play and amusement, but best is the Home in the Hereafter, for those who are righteous, will you not then understand?” (6:32)

The Holy Quran, Sura Ad-Dukhan - الدخان

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وَإِنْ لَّمْ تُؤْمِنُوا لِي فَاعْتَزِلُونِ
"If ye believe me not, at least keep yourselves away from me."
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فَدَعَا رَبَّهُ أَنَّ هَؤُلَاء قَوْمٌ مُّجْرِمُونَ
(But they were aggressive:) then he cried to his Lord: "These are indeed a people given to sin."
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فَأَسْرِ بِعِبَادِي لَيْلاً إِنَّكُم مُّتَّبَعُونَ
(The reply came:) "March forth with My Servants by night: for ye are sure to be pursued.
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وَاتْرُكْ الْبَحْرَ رَهْواً إِنَّهُمْ جُندٌ مُّغْرَقُونَ
"And leave the sea as a furrow (divided): for they are a host (destined) to be drowned."
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كَمْ تَرَكُوا مِن جَنَّاتٍ وَعُيُونٍ
How many were the gardens and springs they left behind,
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وَزُرُوعٍ وَمَقَامٍ كَرِيمٍ
And corn-fields and noble buildings,
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وَنَعْمَةٍ كَانُوا فِيهَا فَاكِهِينَ
And wealth (and conveniences of life), wherein they had taken such delight!
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كَذَلِكَ وَأَوْرَثْنَاهَا قَوْماً آخَرِينَ
Thus (was their end)! And We made other people inherit (those things)!
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فَمَا بَكَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّمَاء وَالْأَرْضُ وَمَا كَانُوا مُنظَرِينَ
And neither heaven nor earth shed a tear over them: nor were they given a respite (again).
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وَلَقَدْ نَجَّيْنَا بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنَ الْعَذَابِ الْمُهِينِ
We did deliver aforetime the Children of Israel from humiliating Punishment,