# Sura  88 - The Overwhelming Calamity

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> 88. al-Ghashiya: The Overwhelming Calamity
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> 1 Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming ? 
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> 2 On that day (many) faces will be downcast, 
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> 3 Toiling, weary, 
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> 4 Scorched by burning fire, 
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> 5 Drinking from a boiling spring, 
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> 6 No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit 
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> 7 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 
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> 8 In that day other faces will be calm, 
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> 9 Glad for their effort past, 
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> 10 In a high Garden 
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> 11 Where they hear no idle speech, 
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> 12 Wherein is a gushing spring, 
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> 13 Wherein are couches raised 
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> 14 And goblets set at hand 
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> 15 And cushions ranged 
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> 16 And silken carpets spread. 
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> 17 Will they not regard the camels, how they are created ? 
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> 18 And the heaven, how it is raised ? 
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> 19 And the hills, how they are set up ? 
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> 20 And the earth, how it is spread ? 
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> 21 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer, 
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> 22 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 
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> 23 But whoso is averse and disbelieveth, 
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> 24 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 
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> 25 Lo! unto Us is their return 
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> 26 And Ours their reckoning.
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> — *Sura  88 - The Overwhelming Calamity*