The Overwhelming

The Koran










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Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming ?

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On that day (many) faces will be downcast,

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Toiling, weary,

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Scorched by burning fire,

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Drinking from a boiling spring,

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No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit

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Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.

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In that day other faces will be calm,

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Glad for their effort past,

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In a high Garden

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Where they hear no idle speech,

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Wherein is a gushing spring,

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Wherein are couches raised

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And goblets set at hand

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And cushions ranged

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And silken carpets spread.

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Will they not regard the camels, how they are created ?

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And the heaven, how it is raised ?

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And the hills, how they are set up ?

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And the earth, how it is spread ?

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Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,

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Thou art not at all a warder over them.

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But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,

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Allah will punish him with direst punishment.

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Lo! unto Us is their return

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And Ours their reckoning.