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 Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Has there come to you the narration of the overwhelming (i.e. the Day of Resurrection)?
(Some) faces on that day shall be downcast,
وجوه يومئذ خاشعة
Some faces, that Day will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians).
Laboring, toiling,
عاملة ناصبة
Labouring (hard in the worldly life by worshipping others besides Allah), weary (in the Hereafter with humility and disgrace).
Entering into burning fire,
تصلى نارا حامية
They will enter in the hot blazing Fire.
Made to drink from a boiling spring.
تسقى من عين آنية
They will be given to drink from a boiling spring,
They shall have no food but of thorns,
ليس لهم طعام إلا من ضريع
No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant,
Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.
لا يسمن ولا يغني من جوع
Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger.
(Other) faces on that day shall be happy,
وجوه يومئذ ناعمة
(Other) faces that Day will be joyful,
Well - pleased because of their striving,
لسعيها راضية
Glad with their endeavour (for their good deeds which they did in this world, along with the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism).
In a lofty garden,
في جنة عالية
In a lofty Paradise.
Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.
لا تسمع فيها لاغية
Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood.
Therein is a fountain flowing,
فيها عين جارية
Therein will be a running spring.
Therein are thrones raised high,
فيها سرر مرفوعة
Therein will be thrones raised high.
And drinking - cups ready placed,
وأكواب موضوعة
And cups set at hand.
And cushions set in a row,
ونمارق مصفوفة
And cushions set in rows.
And carpets spread out.
وزرابي مبثوثة
And rich carpets (all) spread out.
Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created?
أفلا ينظرون إلى الإبل كيف خلقت
Do they not look at the camels, how they are created?
And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,
وإلى السماء كيف رفعت
And at the heaven, how it is raised?
And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,
وإلى الجبال كيف نصبت
And at the mountains, how they are rooted (and fixed firm)?
And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse?
وإلى الأرض كيف سطحت
And at the earth, how it is outspread?
Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.
فذكر إنما أنت مذكر
So remind them (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) - you are only one who reminds.
You are not a watcher over them;
لست عليهم بمصيطر
You are not a dictator over them -
But whoever turns back and disbelieves,
إلا من تولى وكفر
Save the one who turns away and disbelieves.
Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.
فيعذبه الله العذاب الأكبر
Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.
Surely to Us is their turning back,
إن إلينا إيابهم
Verily, to Us will be their return;
Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account.
ثم إن علينا حسابهم
Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning.