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The Qur’ân — Rodwell translation · Surah 99, all eight verses, with opening invocation

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J. M. Rodwell, The Qur’ân, 1876 edition, Internet Sacred Text Archive HTML transcription. Complete surah, all eight verses and unnumbered opening invocation. Historical wording and punctuation retained, paragraph whitespace normalized, footnote callouts removed from the reading text. Web cached transcription inspected 20 September 2026; original print not image-collated.

Public-domain English translation and historical notes, 1876. Modern site navigation and apparatus excluded.

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful WHEN the Earth with her quaking shall quake And the Earth shall cast forth her burdens, And man shall say, What aileth her? On that day shall she tell out her tidings, Because thy Lord shall have inspired her. On that day shall men come forward in throngs to behold their works, And whosoever shall have wrought an atom's weight of good shall behold it, And whosoever shall have wrought an atom's weight of evil shall behold it.

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