Surah Ghashiya
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Have you heard tell of the calamity? [88:1]
Some faces will be downcast that day, [88:2]
laboring, exhausted, [88:3]
roasting in a burning fire, [88:4]
given drink from a boiling spring. [88:5]
There will be no food for them but bitter thorn [88:6]
that neither nourishes nor satisfies hunger. [88:7]
Some faces will be happy that day, [88:8]
satisfied with their endeavor, [88:9]
in a lofty garden, [88:10]
where they’ll hear no nonsense. [88:11]
There’ll be a running spring there, [88:12]
there’ll be elevated couches there, [88:13]
and cups set out [88:14]
and cushions arrayed [88:15]
and rich carpets spread. [88:16]
Don’t they see the camels, how they are made, [88:17]
and the sky, how it is raised, [88:18]
and the mountains, how they are set, [88:19]
and the earth, how it is spread? [88:20]
So remind; you are but one who reminds, [88:21]
not a ruler over them. [88:22]
But whoever turns away and scoffs [88:23]
God will punish him with the greatest torment. [88:24]
It is to Us that they’ll return: [88:25]
then their reckoning is up to Us. [88:26]