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 Post subject: Verses 89:21-26
PostPosted: 04 Jun 2009, 05:38 
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 Post subject: Re: Verses 89:21-26
PostPosted: 04 Oct 2009, 20:31 
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{89:21} No! When the earth has been leveled - pounded and crushed -

I suggest,
{89:21} No! When the earth has been pounded quite a pounding and pounding.

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{89:22} And your Lord has come and the angels, rank upon rank,

I suggest,
{89:22} And your Lord has come and the angels, in row [after] row,

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{89:23} And brought [within view], that Day, is Hell - that Day, man will remember, but what good to him will be the remembrance?

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{89:23} And brought [in view] that Day, is Gehenna (Hell) - that Day man remembers, but too late for him is the remembrance.

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{89:24} He will say, "Oh, I wish I had sent ahead [some good] for my life."

I suggest,
{89:24} He says [that Day], "Oh, how I wish I had put forward [some good] for my life."

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{89:25} So on that Day, none will punish [as severely] as His punishment,

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{89:25} So, that Day, none torments [as] His torment,

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{89:26} And none will bind [as severely] as His binding [of the evildoers].

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{89:26} And none ties up [as] His tying.

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