The Speeches and Table-Talk of the Prophet Mohammad

The Chargers

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.

By the Chargers that pant,
And the hoofs that strike fire,
And the scourers at dawn,
Who stir up the dust with it,
And cleave through a host with it!

Verily Man is thankless towards his Lord,
And verily he is witness thereof,
And verily in his love of weal he is grasping.
Doth he not know?—when what is in the tombs shall be laid open,
And what is in men’s breasts shall be laid bare;
Verily on that day their Lord shall know them well!

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