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1.  *     Woe to every BACKBITER, Defamer!
 
2.  *     Who amasseth wealth and storeth it against the future!
 
3.  *     He thinketh surely that his wealth shall be with him for ever.
 
4.  *     Nay! for verily he shall be flung into the Crushing Fire;
 
5.  *     And who shall teach thee what the Crushing Fire is?
 
6.  *     It is God's kindled fire,
 
7.  *     Which shall mount above the hearts of the damned;
 
8.  *     It shall verily rise over them like a vault,
 
9.  *     On outstretched columns.