# Sura 104 - The Backbiter

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> SURA CIV (104) The Backbiter      (Mecca - 9 Verses)          (XIII - 30)   
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        Woe to every Backbiter, Defamer!
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>        Who amasseth wealth and storeth it against the future!
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>        He thinketh surely that his wealth shall be with him for ever.
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>        Nay! for verily he shall be flung into the Crushing Fire;
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>        And who shall teach thee what the Crushing Fire is?
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>        It is God's kindled fire,
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>        Which shall mount above the hearts of the damned;
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>        It shall verily rise over them like a vault,
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>        On outstretched columns.
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> — *Sura 104 - The Backbiter*