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(loving) cup free of
frivolity, free of all taint of ill.
P: There they pass from hand to hand a cup wherein is neither vanity nor
cause of sin.
S: They shall pass therein from one to another a cup wherein there shall
be nothing vain nor any sin.
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Y: Round about them will serve, (devoted) to them, young male servants
(handsome) as Pearls well-guarded.
P: And there go round, waiting on them menservants of their own, as they
were hidden pearls.
S: And round them shall go boys of theirs as if they were hidden pearls.
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Y: They will advance to each other, engaging in mutual enquiry.
P: And some of them draw near unto others, questioning,
S: And some of them shall advance towards others questioning each other.
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Y: They will say: "Aforetime, we were not without fear for the sake of
our people."
P: Saying: Lo! of old, when we were with our families, we were ever
anxious;
S: Saying: Surely we feared before on account of our families:
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Y: "But Allah has been good to us, and has delivered us from the Penalty
of the Scorching Wind."
P: But Allah hath been gracious unto us and hath preserved us from the
torment of the breath of Fire.
S: But Allah has been gracious to us and He has saved us from the
punishment of the hot wind:
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Y: "Truly, we did call unto Him from of old: truly it is He, the
Beneficent, the Merciful!"
P: Lo! we used to pray unto Him of old. Lo! He is the Benign, the
Merciful.
S: Surely we called upon Him before: Surely He is the Benign, the
Merciful.
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Y: Therefore proclaim thou the praises (of thy Lord): for by the Grace
of thy Lord, thou art no (vulgar) soothsayer, nor art thou one
possessed.
P: Therefor warn (men, O Muhammad). By the grace of Allah thou art
neither soothsayer nor madman.
S: Therefore continue to remind, for by the grace of your Lord, you are
not a soothsayer, or a madman.
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Y: Or do they say:- "A Poet! we await for him some calamity (hatched) by
Time!"
P: Or say they: (he is) a poet, (one) for whom we may expect the
accident of time?
S: Or do they say: A poet, we wait for him the evil accidents of time.
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Y: Say thou: "Await ye!- I too will wait along with you!"
P: Say (unto them): Except (your fill)! Lo! I am with you among the
expectant.
S: Say: Wait, for surely I too with you am of those who wait.
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Y: Is it that their faculties of understanding urge them to this,
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