# Sura  88 - The Overshadowing

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> SURA LXXXVIII (88) - The Overshadowing  (Mecca - 26 Verses)  (XXXVIII - 53)  
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>        In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
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>        Hath the tidings of the day that shall Overshadow, reached thee?
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>        Downcast on that day shall be the countenances of some,
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>        Travailing and worn,
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>        Burnt at the scorching fire,
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>        Made to drink from a fountain fiercely boiling.
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>        No food shall they have but the fruit of Darih,
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>        Which shall not fatten, nor appease their hunger.
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>        Joyous too, on that day, the countenances of others,
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>        Well pleased with their labours past,
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> 88:10  In a lofty garden:
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>        No vain discourse shalt thou hear therein:
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>        Therein shall be a gushing fountain,
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>        Therein shall be raised couches,
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>        And goblets ready placed,
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>        And cushions laid in order,
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>        And carpets spread forth.
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>        Can they not look up to the clouds, how they are created;
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>        And to the heaven how it is upraised;
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>        And to the mountains how they are rooted;
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> 88:20  And to the earth how it is outspread?
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>        Warn thou then; for thou art a warner only:
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>        Thou hast no authority over them:
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>        But whoever shall turn back and disbelieve,
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>        God shall punish him with the greater punishment.
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>        Verily to Us shall they return;
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>        Then shall it be Our's to reckon with them.
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> — *Sura  88 - The Overshadowing*