C 88

88. THE COVERING

The Covering

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. 1. Have the details of the happenings on the (day of the final) covering come to you? 2. Faces on that day will be downcast, 3. labouring, weary, 4. entering very hot fire, 5. being made to drink from boiling spring. 6. There will be no food for them except that from the thorn tree. 7. It will neither be nourishable by them nor will it make them free from hunger. 8. (Other) faces that day will be happy, 9. pleased on account of the effort they had put in earlier. 10. (They will be) in a high garden, 11. therein you will not hear useless talk, 12. therein is a flowing spring, 13. therein are raised couches 14. and drinking cups placed ready (for use) 15. and cushions set in rows, 16. and carpets spread. 17. So do they not see towards the camel how it is created, 18. and towards the sky how it is raised, 19. and towards the mountains how they are rooted 20. and towards the earth how it is spread? 21. So remind, you are only to remind. 22. You are not in authority over them. 23. But one who turns away and does not believe, 24. so he will be punished by Allah with a great punishment. 25. Their return is certainly towards Us, 26. then certainly, it is on Us to take their account. (R 1, P 29 )

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