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