Analysis details
This verse's score: 0.89. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Its pickings are within reach.
Whose clusters shall be near at hand
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Fifty-two verses: The inevitable — a word repeated three times before anything is said about it. Thamud and 'Aad, the wind loosed for seven nights and eight days, and then the two hands: the one given his record in his right and calling out for people to read it, and the one who wishes he had never been given his at all.
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Its pickings are within reach.
Whose clusters shall be near at hand
And no food except scum.
nor any food, but the filthy corruption flowing from the bodies of the damned
Thamood and Aad denied the Catastrophe.
(The tribes of) Thamud and A'ad disbelieved in the judgment to come
Then slashed his lifeline.
and had cut in sunder the vein of his heart
Surely, it is a message for the righteous.
And verily this book is an admonition unto the pious
Meccan Medinan
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