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 there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]?
On that day (many) faces will be downcast,
وجوه يومئذ خاشعة
[Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled,
Toiling, weary,
عاملة ناصبة
Working [hard] and exhausted.
Scorched by burning fire,
تصلى نارا حامية
They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire.
Drinking from a boiling spring,
تسقى من عين آنية
They will be given drink from a boiling spring.
No food for them save bitter thorn - fruit
ليس لهم طعام إلا من ضريع
For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant
Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.
لا يسمن ولا يغني من جوع
Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.
In that day other faces will be calm,
وجوه يومئذ ناعمة
[Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure.
Glad for their effort past,
لسعيها راضية
With their effort [they are] satisfied
In a high Garden
في جنة عالية
In an elevated garden,
Where they hear no idle speech,
لا تسمع فيها لاغية
Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech.
Wherein is a gushing spring,
فيها عين جارية
Within it is a flowing spring.
Wherein are couches raised
فيها سرر مرفوعة
Within it are couches raised high
And goblets set at hand
وأكواب موضوعة
And cups put in place
And cushions ranged
ونمارق مصفوفة
And cushions lined up
And silken carpets spread.
وزرابي مبثوثة
And carpets spread around.
Will they not regard the camels, how they are created ?
أفلا ينظرون إلى الإبل كيف خلقت
Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created?
And the heaven, how it is raised ?
وإلى السماء كيف رفعت
And at the sky - how it is raised?
And the hills, how they are set up ?
وإلى الجبال كيف نصبت
And at the mountains - how they are erected?
And the earth, how it is spread ?
وإلى الأرض كيف سطحت
And at the earth - how it is spread out?
Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,
فذكر إنما أنت مذكر
So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder.
Thou art not at all a warder over them.
لست عليهم بمصيطر
You are not over them a controller.
But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,
إلا من تولى وكفر
However, he who turns away and disbelieves -
Allah will punish him with direst punishment.
فيعذبه الله العذاب الأكبر
Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.
Lo! unto Us is their return
إن إلينا إيابهم
Indeed, to Us is their return.
And Ours their reckoning.
ثم إن علينا حسابهم
Then indeed, upon Us is their account.