بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هل أتاك حديث الغاشية
Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming ?
Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)?
Chapter 88, 26 verses
The covering/ wrapping up (ٱلْغَٰشِيَةِ)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هل أتاك حديث الغاشية
Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming ?
Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)?
وجوه يومئذ خاشعة
Wujoohun yawmaithin khashiAAatun
On that day (many) faces will be downcast,
Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated,
عاملة ناصبة
AAamilatun nasibatun
Toiling, weary,
Labouring (hard), weary, -
تصلى نارا حامية
Tasla naran hamiyatan
Scorched by burning fire,
The while they enter the Blazing Fire, -
تسقى من عين آنية
Tusqa min AAaynin aniyatin
Drinking from a boiling spring,
The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring,
ليس لهم طعام إلا من ضريع
Laysa lahum taAAamun illa min dareeAAin
No food for them save bitter thorn - fruit
No food will there be for them but a bitter Dhari'
لا يسمن ولا يغني من جوع
La yusminu wala yughnee min jooAAin
Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.
Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger.
وجوه يومئذ ناعمة
Wujoohun yawmaithin naAAimatun
In that day other faces will be calm,
(Other) faces that Day will be joyful,
لسعيها راضية
LisaAAyiha radiyatun
Glad for their effort past,
Pleased with their striving, -
في جنة عالية
Fee jannatin AAaliyatin
In a high Garden
In a Garden on high,
لا تسمع فيها لاغية
La tasmaAAu feeha laghiyatan
Where they hear no idle speech,
Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity:
فيها عين جارية
Feeha AAaynun jariyatun
Wherein is a gushing spring,
Therein will be a bubbling spring:
فيها سرر مرفوعة
Feeha sururun marfooAAatun
Wherein are couches raised
Therein will be Thrones (of dignity), raised on high,
وأكواب موضوعة
Waakwabun mawdooAAatun
And goblets set at hand
Goblets placed (ready),
ونمارق مصفوفة
Wanamariqu masfoofatun
And cushions ranged
And cushions set in rows,
وزرابي مبثوثة
Wazarabiyyu mabthoothatun
And silken carpets spread.
And rich carpets (all) spread out.
أفلا ينظرون إلى الإبل كيف خلقت
Afala yanthuroona ila alibili kayfa khuliqat
Will they not regard the camels, how they are created ?
Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made? -
وإلى السماء كيف رفعت
Waila alssamai kayfa rufiAAat
And the heaven, how it is raised ?
And at the Sky, how it is raised high? -
وإلى الجبال كيف نصبت
Waila aljibali kayfa nusibat
And the hills, how they are set up ?
And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm? -
وإلى الأرض كيف سطحت
Waila alardi kayfa sutihat
And the earth, how it is spread ?
And at the Earth, how it is spread out?
فذكر إنما أنت مذكر
Fathakkir innama anta muthakkirun
Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,
Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish.
لست عليهم بمصيطر
Lasta AAalayhim bimusaytirin
Thou art not at all a warder over them.
Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs.
إلا من تولى وكفر
Illa man tawalla wakafara
But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,
But if any turn away and reject Allah, -
فيعذبه الله العذاب الأكبر
FayuAAaththibuhu Allahu alAAathaba alakbara
Allah will punish him with direst punishment.
Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment,
إن إلينا إيابهم
Inna ilayna iyabahum
Lo! unto Us is their return
For to Us will be their return;
ثم إن علينا حسابهم
Thumma inna AAalayna hisabahum
And Ours their reckoning.
Then it will be for Us to call them to account.