Chapter 88, 26 verses
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming ?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هل أتاك حديث الغاشية
Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?
On that day (many) faces will be downcast,
وجوه يومئذ خاشعة
(Some) faces on that day shall be downcast,
Toiling, weary,
عاملة ناصبة
Laboring, toiling,
Scorched by burning fire,
تصلى نارا حامية
Entering into burning fire,
Drinking from a boiling spring,
تسقى من عين آنية
Made to drink from a boiling spring.
No food for them save bitter thorn - fruit
ليس لهم طعام إلا من ضريع
They shall have no food but of thorns,
Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.
لا يسمن ولا يغني من جوع
Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.
In that day other faces will be calm,
وجوه يومئذ ناعمة
(Other) faces on that day shall be happy,
Glad for their effort past,
لسعيها راضية
Well - pleased because of their striving,
In a high Garden
في جنة عالية
In a lofty garden,
Where they hear no idle speech,
لا تسمع فيها لاغية
Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.
Wherein is a gushing spring,
فيها عين جارية
Therein is a fountain flowing,
Wherein are couches raised
فيها سرر مرفوعة
Therein are thrones raised high,
And goblets set at hand
وأكواب موضوعة
And drinking - cups ready placed,
And cushions ranged
ونمارق مصفوفة
And cushions set in a row,
And silken carpets spread.
وزرابي مبثوثة
And carpets spread out.
Will they not regard the camels, how they are created ?
أفلا ينظرون إلى الإبل كيف خلقت
Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created?
And the heaven, how it is raised ?
وإلى السماء كيف رفعت
And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,
And the hills, how they are set up ?
وإلى الجبال كيف نصبت
And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,
And the earth, how it is spread ?
وإلى الأرض كيف سطحت
And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse?
Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,
فذكر إنما أنت مذكر
Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.
Thou art not at all a warder over them.
لست عليهم بمصيطر
You are not a watcher over them;
But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,
إلا من تولى وكفر
But whoever turns back and disbelieves,
Allah will punish him with direst punishment.
فيعذبه الله العذاب الأكبر
Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.
Lo! unto Us is their return
إن إلينا إيابهم
Surely to Us is their turning back,
And Ours their reckoning.
ثم إن علينا حسابهم
Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account.