The Holy Qur'an

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Chapter 88 - "The Overwhelming Calamity"

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

88.1: Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?

88.2: (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast,

88.3: Laboring, toiling,

88.4: Entering into burning fire,

88.5: Made to drink from a boiling spring.

88.6: They shall have no food but of thorns,

88.7: Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.

88.8: (Other) faces on that day shall be happy,

88.9: Well-pleased because of their striving,

88.10: In a lofty garden,

88.11: Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.

88.12: Therein is a fountain flowing,

88.13: Therein are thrones raised high,

88.14: And drinking-cups ready placed,

88.15: And cushions set in a row,

88.16: And carpets spread out.

88.17: Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created?

88.18: And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,

88.19: And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,

88.20: And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse?

88.21: Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.

88.22: You are not a watcher over them;

88.23: But whoever turns back and disbelieves,

88.24: Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.

88.25: Surely to Us is their turning back,

88.26: Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account.

 

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