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88. THE OVERWHELMING THE PALL
Revealed before the Hijrah. This chapter has 26 verses.
In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
| 88:1 | Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)? |
| 88:2 | Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, |
| 88:3 | Labouring (hard), weary,- |
| 88:4 | The while they enter the Blazing Fire,- |
| 88:5 | The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring, |
| 88:6 | No food will there be for them but a bitter Dhari’ |
| 88:7 | Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. |
| 88:8 | (Other) faces that Day will be joyful, |
| 88:9 | Pleased with their striving,- |
| 88:10 | In a Garden on high, |
| 88:11 | Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: |
| 88:12 | Therein will be a bubbling spring: |
| 88:13 | Therein will be Thrones (of dignity), raised on high, |
| 88:14 | Goblets placed (ready), |
| 88:15 | And cushions set in rows, |
| 88:16 | And rich carpets (all) spread out. |
| 88:17 | Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made?- |
| 88:18 | And at the Sky, how it is raised high?- |
| 88:19 | And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?- |
| 88:20 | And at the Earth, how it is spread out? |
| 88:21 | Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish. |
| 88:22 | Thou art not one to manage (men’s) affairs. |
| 88:23 | But if any turn away and reject God,- |
| 88:24 | God will punish him with a mighty Punishment, |
| 88:25 | For to Us will be their return; |
| 88:26 | Then it will be for Us to call them to account. |