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1.  *     Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming?
 
2.  *     On that day (many) faces will be downcast,
 
3.  *     Toiling, weary,
 
4.  *     Scorched by burning fire,
 
5.  *     Drinking from a boiling spring,
 
6.  *     No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit
 
7.  *     Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.
 
8.  *     In that day other faces will be calm,
 
9.  *     Glad for their effort past,
 
10.  *     In a high Garden
 
11.  *     Where they hear no idle speech,
 
12.  *     Wherein is a gushing spring,
 
13.  *     Wherein are couches raised
 
14.  *     And goblets set at hand
 
15.  *     And cushions ranged
 
16.  *     And silken carpets spread.
 
17.  *     Will they not regard the camels, how they are created?
 
18.  *     And the heaven, how it is raised?
 
19.  *     And the hills, how they are set up?
 
20.  *     And the earth, how it is spread?
 
21.  *     Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,
 
22.  *     Thou art not at all a warder over them.
 
23.  *     But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,
 
24.  *     Allah will punish him with direst punishment.
 
25.  *     Lo! unto Us is their return
 
26.  *     And Ours their reckoning.