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