88. Al-Ghashiyah/The Overpowering Event
I/We begin by the Blessed Name of Allah
The Immensely Merciful to all, The Infinitely Compassionate to everyone.
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a. Has the news of coming of the Overpowering Event reached you?
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a. It will be the Time when some faces will be downcast with fear and shame -
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a. having labored in the world only to weariness - with no payback in the Hereafter.
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a. They will enter the Blazing Fire.
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a. They will be made to drink from a boiling spring of extremely high temperatures.
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a. They will have no food other than bitter dry thorns/cactus -
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a. neither nourishing them nor appeasing their hunger.
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a. While, at the same Time, some faces will be blessed,
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a. pleased with their striving for righteousness during the worldly life,
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a. dwelling in Paradise on high,
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a. wherein they shall never hear any absurdity or frivolous talk,
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a. therein will be flowing spring of fresh sweet water,
732 Surah 88 * Al-Ghashiyah
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a. and couches raised high,
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a. and cups set in place,
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a. and cushions lined up behind them,
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a. and rich carpets spread out beneath them.
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a. Will they - who deny the Resurrection - not observe how the camels are created,
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a. and the celestial realm -
b. how it was formed and raised...
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