Translation of the Holy Koran by Shakir

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Sura 88 Aya 1 to 26
	1		[ 88: 1 ] Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?
	2		[ 88: 2 ] ( Some ) faces on that day shall be downcast,
	3		[ 88: 3 ] Laboring, toiling,
	4		[ 88: 4 ] Entering into burning fire,
	5		[ 88: 5 ] Made to drink from a boiling spring.
	6		[ 88: 6 ] They shall have no food but of thorns,
	7		[ 88: 7 ] Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.
	8		[ 88: 8 ] ( Other ) faces on that day shall be happy,
	9		[ 88: 9 ] Well-pleased because of their striving,
	10		[ 88: 10 ] In a lofty garden,
	11		[ 88: 11 ] Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.
	12		[ 88: 12 ] Therein is a fountain flowing,
	13		[ 88: 13 ] Therein are thrones raised high,
	14		[ 88: 14 ] And drinking-cups ready placed,
	15		[ 88: 15 ] And cushions set in a row,
	16		[ 88: 16 ] And carpets spread out.
	17		[ 88: 17 ] Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created?
	18		[ 88: 18 ] And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,
	19		[ 88: 19 ] And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,
	20		[ 88: 20 ] And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse?
	21		[ 88: 21 ] Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.
	22		[ 88: 22 ] You are not a watcher over them;
	23		[ 88: 23 ] But whoever turns back and disbelieves,
	24		[ 88: 24 ] Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.
	25		[ 88: 25 ] Surely to Us is their turning back,
	26		[ 88: 26 ] Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account.