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This verse's score: 0.84. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 1.00.Then upon Us is its explanation.
And, verily, afterwards it shall be ours to make it clear to thee
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Forty verses swearing by the day of resurrection and by the self-reproaching soul, and answering the man who asks when it will be with a description of the eye dazzled and the moon eclipsed. It closes by asking whether a drop of fluid was not enough of a precedent.
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Then upon Us is its explanation.
And, verily, afterwards it shall be ours to make it clear to thee
Upon Us is its collection and its recitation.
For we will see to the collecting and the recital of it
Thou wilt know that some great disaster is about to fall on them
They shall think that a crushing calamity shall be brought upon them
and it is said, 'Who will charm it back
And there shall be a cry, "Who hath a charm that can restore him
Do not wag your tongue with it, to hurry on with it.
Move not thy tongue, O Mohammed, in repeating the revelations brought thee by Gabriel, before he shall have finished the same, that thou mayest quickly commit them to memory
Meccan Medinan
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