88 - The Overwhelming |
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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. |
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| 1 | Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity? |
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| 2 | (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast, |
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| 3 | Laboring, toiling, |
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| 4 | Entering into burning fire, |
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| 5 | Made to drink from a boiling spring. |
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| 6 | They shall have no food but of thorns, |
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| 7 | Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. |
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| 8 | (Other) faces on that day shall be happy, |
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| 9 | Well-pleased because of their striving, |
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| 10 | In a lofty garden, |
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| 11 | Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. |
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| 12 | Therein is a fountain flowing, |
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| 13 | Therein are thrones raised high, |
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| 14 | And drinking-cups ready placed, |
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| 15 | And cushions set in a row, |
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| 16 | And carpets spread out. |
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| 17 | Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created? |
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| 18 | And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, |
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| 19 | And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, |
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| 20 | And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse? |
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| 21 | Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder. |
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| 22 | You are not a watcher over them; |
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| 23 | But whoever turns back and disbelieves, |
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| 24 | Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement. |
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| 25 | Surely to Us is their turning back, |
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| 26 | Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account. |
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