Surah “The Traducer, The Gossipmonger, The Slanderer”

as rendered by Irving & Mohamed Hegab — 9 verses

How awful [will it be] for every backbiting slanderer
who hoards wealth and keeps on adding to it!
He thinks that his money will make him immortal.
Nevertheless he will be flung into the Bonecrusher!
What will make you realize what the Bonecrusher is?
[It is] Allah (God)'s kindled fire which leaps up
to clutch at one's vitals.
It will be vaulted over them
in outstretched columns.