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To Him Muhammad, the Apostle of God, had alluded in His Book as the "Great Announcement, " and declared His Day to be the Day whereon "God" will "come down" "overshadowed with clouds, " the Day whereon "thy Lord shall come and the angels rank on rank, " and "The Spirit shall arise and the angels shall be ranged in order." His advent He, in that Book, in a surih said to have been termed by Him "the heart of the Qur'an, " had foreshadowed as that of the "third" Messenger, sent down to "strengthen" the two who preceded Him. To His Day He, in the pages of that same Book, had paid a glowing tribute, glorifying it as the "Great Day, " the "Last Day, " the "Day of God, " the "Day of Judgment, " the "Day of Reckoning, " the "Day of Mutual Deceit, " the "Day of Severing, " the "Day of Sighing, " the "Day of Meeting, " the Day "when the Decree shall be accomplished, " the Day whereon the second "Trumpet blast" will be sounded, the "Day when mankind shall stand before the Lord of the world, " and "all shall come to Him in humble guise, " the Day when "thou shalt see the mountains, which thou thinkest so firm, pass away with the passing of a cloud, " the Day "wherein account shall be taken, " "the approaching Day, when men's hearts shall rise up, choking them, into their throats, " the Day when "all that are in the heavens and all that are on the earth shall be terror- stricken, save him whom God pleaseth to deliver, " the Day whereon "every suckling woman shall forsake her sucking babe, and every woman that hath a burden in her womb shall cast her burden, " the Day "when the earth shall shine with the light of her Lord, and the Book shall be set, and the Prophets shall be brought up, and the witnesses; and judgment shall be given between them with equity; and none shall be wronged." (96:1)

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