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Then your cores hardened after that, so that they are like stone, or harder still.

And on the Day of Appearance, they will be brought back to the most severe of punishments.

but those who have believed are even more intense in the love of God.

And if the wrongdoers could see, when they see the punishment, that power belongs to God in its entirety, and that God is severe in punishment —

the trial is more severe than killing.

And guard yourselves toward God, and know that God is severe in sanction.

And when you have completed your beneficent practices, remember God as you remember your ancestors, or with an even more intense remembrance.

And whoever changes the blessing of God after it has come to him — God is indeed severe in sanction.

Indeed, those who have disowned the signs of God will have a severe punishment.

God is severe in sanction.

As for those who disowned, I will punish them with a severe punishment, in the present life and in the last life,

And had they done what they were exhorted to do, it would have been better for them, and would have made them firmer;

Then, when combat was prescribed for them, behold, a fraction among them dreads men as one dreads God, or with an even more intense dread,

God is more formidable in rigor, and more formidable in exemplary deterrence.

God is indeed severe in sanction.

You will surely find that the most hostile of men toward those who have believed are the Reoriented and those who have associated,

Know that God is severe in sanction, and that God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.

A diminishment before God, and a severe punishment, will strike those who cut themselves off, for having plotted.

And do not approach the goods of the orphan, except in the best way, until he reaches his full maturity;

And when a community among them said: "Why do you exhort a people whom God is going to annihilate, or punish with a severe punishment?"

And whoever sets himself in breach against God and His messenger — God is indeed severe in sanction.

and know that God is severe in sanction.

God is severe in sanction.

God is indeed strong, severe in sanction.

Like those who preceded you: they were superior to you in strength, richer in goods and children; they enjoyed their allotment, and you have enjoyed your allotment as those before you enjoyed their allotment, and you have immersed yourselves as they immersed themselves.

Say: "The fire of Jahannam is even more intense in heat" — if only they understood!

The notables are even more intense in disowning and hypocrisy, and they all the more deserve not to know the limits of what God has sent down upon His messenger.

then to Us will be their return; then We will make them taste the severe punishment, for having disowned.

Our Guardian, obliterate their goods and tighten their cores, so that they do not believe until they see the painful punishment."

He said: "Would that I had some strength against you, or could take refuge in a strong support!"

His seizure is indeed painful, severe.

And when he reached his full maturity, We gave him judgment and knowledge:

Then there will come, after that, seven severe years, which will consume what you had prepared for them, except the little you protect.

and your Guardian is surely severe in sanction.

and He sends the thunderbolt, and strikes with it whom He wills, while they argue about God; and He is of a formidable vigor.

And woe to those who disown, from a severe punishment —

And when your Guardian made known: "If you are grateful, I shall surely increase you; but if you disown, My punishment is surely severe."

their works are like ashes that the wind whips intensely, on a stormy day: they can hold on to nothing of what they earned.

When the promise of the first of these two came, We raised up against you obedient ones of Ours, possessed of severe rigor, who ranged through the abodes in every direction —

And do not approach the goods of the orphan, except in the best way, until he reaches his full maturity,

And there is not a city but We shall annihilate it before the Day of Appearance, or punish it with a severe punishment:

straight — to warn of a severe rigor from Him, to give the believers who do sound deeds the glad tidings that they will have a fine reward, wherein they will remain forever, and to warn those who said: "God has taken a child."

their father was sound, and your Guardian wanted them to reach their full maturity and extract their treasure themselves, as a benevolence from your Guardian;

Then We will surely pluck out, from every faction, those most insolent toward the All-Benevolent.

Strengthen through him my resolve, and associate him with my task, so that we may glorify You abundantly and remember You abundantly; You are All-Seeing of us."

I shall surely cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I shall surely crucify you on trunks of palm trees; and you shall surely know which of us is more severe in punishment and more lasting."

and the punishment of the last life is more severe and more lasting.

The Day you see it, every woman with a child in her care will be oblivious of the child she was caring for, and every pregnant one will lay down her bearing, and you will see mankind intoxicated, though they are not intoxicated — but the punishment of God is severe.

then We bring you out as a child, that you may then reach your full maturity.

until, when We open upon them a gate of severe punishment, there they are, in despair.

I will surely punish her with a severe punishment, or I will slaughter her, unless she brings me a manifest authority."

They said: "We are possessors of strength and possessors of severe rigor, but the affair is yours to decide; so consider what you command."

When he reached his full maturity and had become established, We gave him judgment and knowledge —

He said: "We will strengthen your arm through your brother, and We will appoint for you both an authority, so that they will not be able to reach you — through Our signs,

Did he not know that God had annihilated, before him, generations that were superior to him in strength and amassed more?

Have they not traveled through the earth and looked at what was the end of those before them? They were superior to them in strength, and they stirred up the earth

There the believers were tested, and shaken with a violent quaking.

he is only a warner for you, before a severe punishment."

Those who disown will have a severe punishment,

And those who plot evil deeds will have a severe punishment,

Have they not traveled through the earth and looked at what was the end of those before them, who were yet superior to them in strength?

So consult them: are they harder to create, or those We have created?

And We strengthened his dominion and gave him wisdom and the address that separates.

Indeed, those who stray from the way of God will have a severe punishment, for having forgotten the Day of Reckoning."

The descent of the Scripture comes from God, the All-Powerful, the All-Knowing, He who forgives offense and accepts repentance, severe in sanction, possessor of largesse,

They were superior to them in strength and in traces left on the earth, and God seized them for their offenses;

He is indeed strong, severe in sanction.

and the day the Hour rises: "Enter, clan of Fir'awn, into the most severe punishment."

It is He who created you from earth, then from a drop, then from a clinging form, then brings you out as a child, then lets you reach your full strength, then become old men —

They were more numerous than them and superior in strength and in traces left on the earth; but what they used to earn availed them nothing.

As for the Aad, they grew proud on the earth without right, and said: "Who is superior to us in strength?"

Did they not see that God, who created them, is superior to them in strength?

We will surely make those who disown taste a severe punishment, and We will surely recompense them according to the worst of what they used to do.

and for them a severe punishment.

while those who disown will have a severe punishment.

So We annihilated those more formidable than they in striking,

Until, when he reaches his full maturity and reaches forty years, he says: "My Guardian, inspire me to be grateful for Your blessing which You bestowed upon me and upon my parents, and to do a sound deed that pleases You.

Then, when you have fully subdued them, tighten their bonds firmly,

And how many a city superior in strength to your city which expelled you have We annihilated, and they had no help.

Say to those of the notables who were left behind: "You will be called to a people of severe rigor; you will fight them, or they will become true to God alone."

And those who are with him are severe toward those who disown, benevolent among themselves.

Cast into Jahannam, both of you, everyone who persistently disowns, obstructive of good, a crosser of limits, a sower of doubt, who set up, alongside God, another deity — cast him then into the severe punishment.

How many generations have We annihilated before them, more formidable than they in striking, who had scoured the land!

One of intense strength, of sound vigor, taught him,

And in the last life: severe punishment, and forgiveness from God and good pleasure.

And We sent down iron, in which is severe rigor and benefits for mankind.

God has prepared for them a severe punishment.

And whoever sets himself in breach against God — God is indeed severe in sanction.

And guard yourselves toward God; God is indeed severe in sanction.

You inspire, in their chests, more reverence than God.

Their violence among themselves is formidable.

How many a town defied with insolence the command of its Guardian and His messengers! We called it to a severe account and punished it with a horrible punishment, and it tasted the baleful consequences of its conduct.

God has prepared for them a severe punishment.

O you who have believed! Guard your Selves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is men and stones, over which are Agents, harsh and severe, who do not disobey God in what He commands them, and who do what they are commanded.

And we touched the sky and found it filled with severe sentinels and blazing projectiles.

The rising of the night is firmer in impact and more upright in saying.

It is We who created them and strengthened their frame; and when We will it, We will replace them entirely with their likenesses.

Have We not made the earth a spread-out expanse, and the mountains as stakes? Have We not created you in pairs, and made your sleep a rest? Have We not made the night a covering, and the day for livelihood? Have We not built above you seven strong, and placed an incandescent torch? And sent down from those that press out abundant water, that We may bring forth thereby grain and vegetation, and intertwined gardens?

Are you more difficult to create, or is the sky?

Surely, the strike of your Guardian is severe.

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. By those that cross the limits, panting, that strike the spark through their clashes, that launch the assault at dawn, stirring up the dust, and plunging thereby into the heart of a host! The human being is surely, toward his Guardian, rebelliously ungrateful, and he is surely himself a witness to that, and for the love of the good he is surely vehement.