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1.  *     Hast thou received the story of the Enveloper?
 
2.  *     Faces on that day humbled,
 
3.  *     labouring, toilworn,
 
4.  *     roasting at a scorching fire,
 
5.  *     watered at a boiling fountain,
 
6.  *     no food for them but cactus thorn
 
7.  *     unfattening, unappeasing hunger.
 
8.  *     Faces on that day jocund,
 
9.  *     with their striving well-pleased,
 
10.  *     in a sublime Garden,
 
11.  *     hearing there no babble;
 
12.  *     therein a running fountain,
 
13.  *     therein uplifted couches
 
14.  *     and goblets set forth
 
15.  *     and cushions arrayed
 
16.  *     and carpets outspread.
 
17.  *     What, do they not consider how the camel was created,
 
18.  *     how heaven was lifted up,
 
19.  *     how the mountains were hoisted,
 
20.  *     how the earth was outstretched?
 
21.  *     Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder;
 
22.  *     thou art not charged to oversee them.
 
23.  *     But he who turns his back, and disbelieves,
 
24.  *     God shall chastise him with the greatest chastisement.
 
25.  *     Truly, to Us is their return;
 
26.  *     then upon Us shall rest their reckoning.