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shakir
 
1.  *     Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?
 
2.  *     (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast,
 
3.  *     Laboring, toiling,
 
4.  *     Entering into burning fire,
 
5.  *     Made to drink from a boiling spring.
 
6.  *     They shall have no food but of thorns,
 
7.  *     Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.
 
8.  *     (Other) faces on that day shall be happy,
 
9.  *     Well-pleased because of their striving,
 
10.  *     In a lofty garden,
 
11.  *     Wherein you shall not hear 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 a row,
 
16.  *     And carpets spread out.
 
17.  *     Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created?
 
18.  *     And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,
 
19.  *     And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,
 
20.  *     And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse?
 
21.  *     Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.
 
22.  *     You are not a watcher over them;
 
23.  *     But whoever turns back and disbelieves,
 
24.  *     Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.
 
25.  *     Surely to Us is their turning back,
 
26.  *     Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account.