Al Gashiya

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1 In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming ?

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1 Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]?

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2 On that day (many) faces will be downcast,

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2 [Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled,

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3 Toiling, weary,

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3 Working [hard] and exhausted.

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4 Scorched by burning fire,

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4 They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire.

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5 Drinking from a boiling spring,

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5 They will be given drink from a boiling spring.

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6 No food for them save bitter thorn - fruit

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6 For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant

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7 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.

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7 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.

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8 In that day other faces will be calm,

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8 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure.

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9 Glad for their effort past,

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9 With their effort [they are] satisfied

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10 In a high Garden

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10 In an elevated garden,

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11 Where they hear no idle speech,

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11 Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech.

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12 Wherein is a gushing spring,

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12 Within it is a flowing spring.

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13 Wherein are couches raised

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13 Within it are couches raised high

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14 And goblets set at hand

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14 And cups put in place

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15 And cushions ranged

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15 And cushions lined up

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16 And silken carpets spread.

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16 And carpets spread around.

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17 Will they not regard the camels, how they are created ?

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17 Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created?

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18 And the heaven, how it is raised ?

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18 And at the sky - how it is raised?

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19 And the hills, how they are set up ?

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19 And at the mountains - how they are erected?

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20 And the earth, how it is spread ?

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20 And at the earth - how it is spread out?

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21 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,

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21 So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder.

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22 Thou art not at all a warder over them.

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22 You are not over them a controller.

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23 But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,

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23 However, he who turns away and disbelieves -

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24 Allah will punish him with direst punishment.

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24 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.

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25 Lo! unto Us is their return

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25 Indeed, to Us is their return.

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26 And Ours their reckoning.

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26 Then indeed, upon Us is their account.