wunder · LibraryPart 57
Read in the Wunder reader — freeTo Him maketh suit all that is in the Heaven and the Earth. Every day doth some new work employ Him:
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We will find leisure to judge you, O ye men and djinn:4
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O company of djinn and men, if ye can overpass the bounds of the Heavens and the Earth, then overpass them. But by our leave only shall ye overpass them:
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A bright flash of fire shall be hurled at you both, and molten brass, and ye shall not defend yourselves from it:
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When the Heaven shall be cleft asunder, and become rose red, like stained leather:
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On that day shall neither man nor djinn be asked of his sin:
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By their tokens shall the sinners be known, and they shall be seized by their forelocks and their feet:
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"This is Hell which sinners treated as a lie."
To and fro shall they pass between it and the boiling water:
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But for those who dread the majesty of their Lord shall be two gardens:
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With o'erbranching trees in each:
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In each two kinds of every fruit:
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On couches with linings of brocade shall they recline, and the fruit of the two gardens shall be within easy reach:
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Therein shall be the damsels with retiring glances, whom nor man nor djinn hath touched before them:
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Like jacynths and pearls:
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