Chapter 88, 26 verses
The covering/ wrapping up (ٱلْغَٰشِيَةِ)
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هل أتاك حديث الغاشية
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]?
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Has there come to you the narration of the overwhelming (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)?
وجوه يومئذ خاشعة
[Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled,
Some faces, that Day will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians).
عاملة ناصبة
Working [hard] and exhausted.
Labouring (hard in the worldly life by worshipping others besides Allah), weary (in the Hereafter with humility and disgrace).
تصلى نارا حامية
They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire.
They will enter in the hot blazing Fire.
تسقى من عين آنية
They will be given drink from a boiling spring.
They will be given to drink from a boiling spring,
ليس لهم طعام إلا من ضريع
For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant
No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant,
لا يسمن ولا يغني من جوع
Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.
Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger.
وجوه يومئذ ناعمة
[Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure.
(Other) faces that Day will be joyful,
لسعيها راضية
With their effort [they are] satisfied
Glad with their endeavour (for their good deeds which they did in this world, along with the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism).
في جنة عالية
In an elevated garden,
In a lofty Paradise.
لا تسمع فيها لاغية
Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech.
Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood.
فيها عين جارية
Within it is a flowing spring.
Therein will be a running spring.
فيها سرر مرفوعة
Within it are couches raised high
Therein will be thrones raised high.
وأكواب موضوعة
And cups put in place
And cups set at hand.
ونمارق مصفوفة
And cushions lined up
And cushions set in rows.
وزرابي مبثوثة
And carpets spread around.
And rich carpets (all) spread out.
أفلا ينظرون إلى الإبل كيف خلقت
Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created?
Do they not look at the camels, how they are created?
وإلى السماء كيف رفعت
And at the sky - how it is raised?
And at the heaven, how it is raised?
وإلى الجبال كيف نصبت
And at the mountains - how they are erected?
And at the mountains, how they are rooted (and fixed firm)?
وإلى الأرض كيف سطحت
And at the earth - how it is spread out?
And at the earth, how it is outspread?
فذكر إنما أنت مذكر
So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder.
So remind them (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) - you are only one who reminds.
لست عليهم بمصيطر
You are not over them a controller.
You are not a dictator over them -
إلا من تولى وكفر
However, he who turns away and disbelieves -
Save the one who turns away and disbelieves.
فيعذبه الله العذاب الأكبر
Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.
Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.
إن إلينا إيابهم
Indeed, to Us is their return.
Verily, to Us will be their return;
ثم إن علينا حسابهم
Then indeed, upon Us is their account.
Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning.