Al Gashiya

Shakir

1 Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?

Pickthall

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

Shakir

2 (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast,

Pickthall

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

Shakir

3 Laboring, toiling,

Pickthall

3 Toiling, weary,

Shakir

4 Entering into burning fire,

Pickthall

4 Scorched by burning fire,

Shakir

5 Made to drink from a boiling spring.

Pickthall

5 Drinking from a boiling spring,

Shakir

6 They shall have no food but of thorns,

Pickthall

6 No food for them save bitter thorn - fruit

Shakir

7 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.

Pickthall

7 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.

Shakir

8 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy,

Pickthall

8 In that day other faces will be calm,

Shakir

9 Well - pleased because of their striving,

Pickthall

9 Glad for their effort past,

Shakir

10 In a lofty garden,

Pickthall

10 In a high Garden

Shakir

11 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.

Pickthall

11 Where they hear no idle speech,

Shakir

12 Therein is a fountain flowing,

Pickthall

12 Wherein is a gushing spring,

Shakir

13 Therein are thrones raised high,

Pickthall

13 Wherein are couches raised

Shakir

14 And drinking - cups ready placed,

Pickthall

14 And goblets set at hand

Shakir

15 And cushions set in a row,

Pickthall

15 And cushions ranged

Shakir

16 And carpets spread out.

Pickthall

16 And silken carpets spread.

Shakir

17 Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created?

Pickthall

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

Shakir

18 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,

Pickthall

18 And the heaven, how it is raised ?

Shakir

19 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,

Pickthall

19 And the hills, how they are set up ?

Shakir

20 And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse?

Pickthall

20 And the earth, how it is spread ?

Shakir

21 Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.

Pickthall

21 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,

Shakir

22 You are not a watcher over them;

Pickthall

22 Thou art not at all a warder over them.

Shakir

23 But whoever turns back and disbelieves,

Pickthall

23 But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,

Shakir

24 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.

Pickthall

24 Allah will punish him with direst punishment.

Shakir

25 Surely to Us is their turning back,

Pickthall

25 Lo! unto Us is their return

Shakir

26 Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account.

Pickthall

26 And Ours their reckoning.