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