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This verse's score: 0.76. Widest pair of the 5 renderings, at 0.90.Nay, but verily he will be flung to the Consuming One
By no means. He shall surely be cast into al Hotama
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Nine verses against one figure: a slanderer who gathers wealth and counts it and thinks it will make him last, and the fire that closes over him in outstretched columns. It takes its name from the slander at verse 1.
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Nay, but verily he will be flung to the Consuming One
By no means. He shall surely be cast into al Hotama
Lo! it is closed in on them
Verily it shall be as an arched vault above them
Who hath gathered wealth (of this world) and arranged it
Who heapeth up riches, and prepareth the same for the time to come
In extended columns.
on columns of vast extent
Ah, what will convey unto thee what the Consuming One is
And what shall cause thee to understand what al Hotama is
Meccan Medinan
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