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And We will surely test you with some fear and hunger, and with a diminution of goods, Self, and fruits;

And messengers whose account We have already related to you, and messengers whose account We have not related to you;

and We will surely relate to them, with full knowledge,

Those are the cities of which We relate to you certain information.

And We indeed seized the clan of Fir'awn with years and a diminution of fruits, perhaps they would remember.

And announce to those who have disowned a painful punishment — except those of the associators with whom you made a pact, and who then did not stint you in anything nor supported anyone against you: complete your pact toward them until its term.

and do not diminish the measure nor the balance.

Those are pieces of information about the cities which We relate to you: some of them remain standing, and others are mown down.

And all that We relate to you of the pieces of information about the messengers is that by which We make your Conscience firm;

We relate to you the finest of accounts, by revealing to you this Recitation, though you were indeed, before it, among the heedless.

Have they not seen that We come to the earth, diminishing it from its extremities?

We relate to you their information in truth:

Thus do We relate to you certain pieces of information about what has gone before,

Do they not see that We come to the earth, diminishing it from its extremities?

No being has his life extended, nor is his life shortened, except that it is in a record.

We certainly sent messengers before you; some whose account We have related to you, and some whose account We have not related to you;

We know what the earth diminishes of them, and We have a record that preserves everything.

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. O you who are wrapped up! Stand the night, except a little — half of it, or subtract from it a little, or add to it — and recite the Recitation with measured, distinct recitation.