| asad | |
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| 1. * | OH, the sudden calamity! 1 |
| 2. * | How awesome the sudden calamity! |
| 3. * | And what could make thee conceive what that sudden calamity will be? |
| 4. * | [It will occur] on the Day when men will be like moths swarming in confusion, |
| 5. * | and the mountains will be like fluffy tufts of wool. . . . |
| 6. * | And then, he whose weight [of good deeds] is heavy in the balance |
| 7. * | shall find himself in a happy' state of life; |
| 8. * | whereas he whose weight is light in the balance |
| 9. * | shall be engulfed by an abyss. 2 |
| 10. * | And what could make thee conceive what that [abyss] will be? |
| 11. * | A fire hotly burning! 3 |