Chapter 88, 26 verses
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming ?
Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هل أتاك حديث الغاشية
On that day (many) faces will be downcast,
Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated,
وجوه يومئذ خاشعة
Toiling, weary,
Labouring (hard), weary, -
عاملة ناصبة
Scorched by burning fire,
The while they enter the Blazing Fire, -
تصلى نارا حامية
Drinking from a boiling spring,
The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring,
تسقى من عين آنية
No food for them save bitter thorn - fruit
No food will there be for them but a bitter Dhari'
ليس لهم طعام إلا من ضريع
Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.
Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger.
لا يسمن ولا يغني من جوع
In that day other faces will be calm,
(Other) faces that Day will be joyful,
وجوه يومئذ ناعمة
Glad for their effort past,
Pleased with their striving, -
لسعيها راضية
In a high Garden
In a Garden on high,
في جنة عالية
Where they hear no idle speech,
Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity:
لا تسمع فيها لاغية
Wherein is a gushing spring,
Therein will be a bubbling spring:
فيها عين جارية
Wherein are couches raised
Therein will be Thrones (of dignity), raised on high,
فيها سرر مرفوعة
And goblets set at hand
Goblets placed (ready),
وأكواب موضوعة
And cushions ranged
And cushions set in rows,
ونمارق مصفوفة
And silken carpets spread.
And rich carpets (all) spread out.
وزرابي مبثوثة
Will they not regard the camels, how they are created ?
Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made? -
أفلا ينظرون إلى الإبل كيف خلقت
And the heaven, how it is raised ?
And at the Sky, how it is raised high? -
وإلى السماء كيف رفعت
And the hills, how they are set up ?
And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm? -
وإلى الجبال كيف نصبت
And the earth, how it is spread ?
And at the Earth, how it is spread out?
وإلى الأرض كيف سطحت
Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,
Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish.
فذكر إنما أنت مذكر
Thou art not at all a warder over them.
Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs.
لست عليهم بمصيطر
But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,
But if any turn away and reject Allah, -
إلا من تولى وكفر
Allah will punish him with direst punishment.
Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment,
فيعذبه الله العذاب الأكبر
Lo! unto Us is their return
For to Us will be their return;
إن إلينا إيابهم
And Ours their reckoning.
Then it will be for Us to call them to account.
ثم إن علينا حسابهم