Sura 77: Dispatched (Al-Mursalaat)
Number of verses: 50
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
1. (Angels) dispatched
in succession.
2. To drive the wind.
3. Stir up clouds.
4. Distribute the
provisions.
5. Deliver messages.
6. Good news, as well as
warnings.
7. What is promised
will come to pass.
8. Thus, when the stars
are put out.
9. The sky is opened up.
10. The mountains are
blown up.
11. The messengers are
summoned.
12. That is the appointed
Day.
13. The Day of Decision.
14. What a Day of
Decision!
15. Woe on that Day to
the rejectors.
16. Did we not
annihilate the earlier generations?
17. Then we made others
follow them?
18. This is what we do to
the criminals.
19. Woe on that Day to
the rejectors.
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20. Did we not create
you from a lowly liquid?
21. Then we placed it in
a well-protected repository.
22. For a specific
period.
23. We measured it
precisely. We are the best designers.
24. Woe on that Day to
the rejectors.
25. Did we not make
the earth an abode?
26. For the living and
the dead?
27. We placed on it high
mountains, and provided you with fresh water to drink.
28. Woe on that day to
the rejectors.
29. Go to what you
used to disbelieve in.
30. Go to a shade of
three different densities.
31. Yet, it provides
neither coolness, nor protection from the heat.
32. It throws sparks as
big as mansions.
33. As yellow as the
color of camels.
34. Woe on that Day to
the rejectors.
35. That is the Day
they do not speak.
36. Nor are they given
permission to apologize.
37. Woe on that day to
the rejectors.
38. This is the Day of
Decision. We have summoned you and the previous generations.
39. If you have any
schemes, go ahead and scheme.
40. Woe on that day to
the rejectors.
41. The righteous will
enjoy shade and springs.
42. And fruits that they
desire.
43. Eat and drink happily
in return for your works.
44. We thus reward the
virtuous.
45. Woe on that day to
the rejectors.
46. Eat and enjoy
temporarily; you are guilty.
47. Woe on that day to
the rejectors.
48. When they are
told, "Bow down," they do not bow down.
49. Woe on that day to
the rejectors.
50. Which
Hadith, other than this, do they uphold?
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*77:20-23 According to Langman's
Medical Embryology, by T. W. Sadler (Fifth Edition, Page 88):
"In general the length of pregnancy for a full term fetus is
266 days or 38 weeks after fertilization.'' Both 266 and 38 are
multiples of 19 (Appendix 1).
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