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88. Al-Ghaashiyah - The Overwhelming
| 1 | Hast thou received the story of the Enveloper? |
| 2 | Faces on that day humbled, |
| 3 | labouring, toilworn, |
| 4 | roasting at a scorching fire, |
| 5 | watered at a boiling fountain, |
| 6 | no food for them but cactus thorn |
| 7 | unfattening, unappeasing hunger. |
| 8 | Faces on that day jocund, |
| 9 | with their striving well-pleased, |
| 10 | in a sublime Garden, |
| 11 | hearing there no babble; |
| 12 | therein a running fountain, |
| 13 | therein uplifted couches |
| 14 | and goblets set forth |
| 15 | and cushions arrayed |
| 16 | and carpets outspread. |
| 17 | What, do they not consider how the camel was created, |
| 18 | how heaven was lifted up, |
| 19 | how the mountains were hoisted, |
| 20 | how the earth was outstretched? |
| 21 | Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder; |
| 22 | thou art not charged to oversee them. |
| 23 | But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, |
| 24 | God shall chastise him with the greatest chastisement. |
| 25 | Truly, to Us is their return; |
| 26 | then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. |