# Surah 88

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