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1.  *     Has there come to thee the news of the Overwhelming Event?
 
2.  *     Faces on that day will be downcast,
 
3.  *     Labouring, toiling,
 
4.  *     Entering burning Fire,
 
5.  *     Made to drink from a boiling spring.
 
6.  *     They will have no food but of thorns,
 
7.  *     Neither nourishing nor satisfying hunger.
 
8.  *     Faces on that day will be happy,
 
9.  *     Glad for their striving,
 
10.  *     In a lofty Garden,
 
11.  *     Wherein thou wilt hear no vain talk.
 
12.  *     Therein is a fountain flowing.
 
13.  *     Therein are thrones raised high,
 
14.  *     And drinking-cups ready placed,
 
15.  *     And cushions set in tows,
 
16.  *     And carpets spread out.
 
17.  *     See they not the clouds, how they are created?
 
18.  *     And the heaven, how it is raised high?
 
19.  *     And the mountains, how they are fixed?
 
20.  *     And the earth, how it is spread out?
 
21.  *     So remind. Thou art only one to remind.
 
22.  *     Thou art not warder over them --
 
23.  *     But whoever turns back and disbelieves,
 
24.  *     Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.
 
25.  *     Surely to Us is their return,
 
26.  *     Then it is for Us to call them to account.