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1.  *     Hath the tidings of the day that shall OVERSHADOW, reached thee?
 
2.  *     Downcast on that day shall be the countenances of some,
 
3.  *     Travailing and worn,
 
4.  *     Burnt at the scorching fire,
 
5.  *     Made to drink from a fountain fiercely boiling.
 
6.  *     No food shall they have but the fruit of Darih,
 
7.  *     Which shall not fatten, nor appease their hunger.
 
8.  *     Joyous too, on that day, the countenances of others,
 
9.  *     Well pleased with their labours past,
 
10.  *     In a lofty garden:
 
11.  *     No vain discourse shalt thou hear therein:
 
12.  *     Therein shall be a gushing fountain,
 
13.  *     Therein shall be raised couches,
 
14.  *     And goblets ready placed,
 
15.  *     And cushions laid in order,
 
16.  *     And carpets spread forth.
 
17.  *     Can they not look up to the clouds, how they are created;
 
18.  *     And to the heaven how it is upraised;
 
19.  *     And to the mountains how they are rooted;
 
20.  *     And to the earth how it is outspread?
 
21.  *     Warn thou then; for thou art a warner only:
 
22.  *     Thou hast no authority over them:
 
23.  *     But whoever shall turn back and disbelieve,
 
24.  *     God shall punish him with the greater punishment.
 
25.  *     Verily to Us shall they return;
 
26.  *     Then shall it be Our's to reckon with them.