Chapter 88, 26 verses
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming ?
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]?
Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)?
On that day (many) faces will be downcast,
[Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled,
Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated,
Toiling, weary,
Working [hard] and exhausted.
Labouring (hard), weary, -
Scorched by burning fire,
They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire.
The while they enter the Blazing Fire, -
Drinking from a boiling spring,
They will be given drink from a boiling spring.
The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring,
No food for them save bitter thorn - fruit
For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant
No food will there be for them but a bitter Dhari'
Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.
Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.
Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger.
In that day other faces will be calm,
[Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure.
(Other) faces that Day will be joyful,
Glad for their effort past,
With their effort [they are] satisfied
Pleased with their striving, -
In a high Garden
In an elevated garden,
In a Garden on high,
Where they hear no idle speech,
Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech.
Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity:
Wherein is a gushing spring,
Within it is a flowing spring.
Therein will be a bubbling spring:
Wherein are couches raised
Within it are couches raised high
Therein will be Thrones (of dignity), raised on high,
And goblets set at hand
And cups put in place
Goblets placed (ready),
And cushions ranged
And cushions lined up
And cushions set in rows,
And silken carpets spread.
And carpets spread around.
And rich carpets (all) spread out.
Will they not regard the camels, how they are created ?
Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created?
Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made? -
And the heaven, how it is raised ?
And at the sky - how it is raised?
And at the Sky, how it is raised high? -
And the hills, how they are set up ?
And at the mountains - how they are erected?
And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm? -
And the earth, how it is spread ?
And at the earth - how it is spread out?
And at the Earth, how it is spread out?
Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,
So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder.
Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish.
Thou art not at all a warder over them.
You are not over them a controller.
Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs.
But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,
However, he who turns away and disbelieves -
But if any turn away and reject Allah, -
Allah will punish him with direst punishment.
Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.
Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment,
Lo! unto Us is their return
Indeed, to Us is their return.
For to Us will be their return;
And Ours their reckoning.
Then indeed, upon Us is their account.
Then it will be for Us to call them to account.