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 ?
Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)?
(Some) faces on that day shall be downcast,
On that day (many) faces will be downcast,
Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated,
Laboring, toiling,
Toiling, weary,
Labouring (hard), weary, -
Entering into burning fire,
Scorched by burning fire,
The while they enter the Blazing Fire, -
Made to drink from a boiling spring.
Drinking from a boiling spring,
The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring,
They shall have no food but of thorns,
No food for them save bitter thorn - fruit
No food will there be for them but a bitter Dhari'
Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.
Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.
Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger.
(Other) faces on that day shall be happy,
In that day other faces will be calm,
(Other) faces that Day will be joyful,
Well - pleased because of their striving,
Glad for their effort past,
Pleased with their striving, -
In a lofty garden,
In a high Garden
In a Garden on high,
Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.
Where they hear no idle speech,
Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity:
Therein is a fountain flowing,
Wherein is a gushing spring,
Therein will be a bubbling spring:
Therein are thrones raised high,
Wherein are couches raised
Therein will be Thrones (of dignity), raised on high,
And drinking - cups ready placed,
And goblets set at hand
Goblets placed (ready),
And cushions set in a row,
And cushions ranged
And cushions set in rows,
And carpets spread out.
And silken carpets spread.
And rich carpets (all) spread out.
Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created?
Will they not regard the camels, how they are created ?
Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made? -
And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,
And the heaven, how it is raised ?
And at the Sky, how it is raised high? -
And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,
And the hills, how they are set up ?
And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm? -
And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse?
And the earth, how it is spread ?
And at the Earth, how it is spread out?
Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.
Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,
Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish.
You are not a watcher over them;
Thou art not at all a warder over them.
Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs.
But whoever turns back and disbelieves,
But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,
But if any turn away and reject Allah, -
Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.
Allah will punish him with direst punishment.
Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment,
Surely to Us is their turning back,
Lo! unto Us is their return
For to Us will be their return;
Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account.
And Ours their reckoning.
Then it will be for Us to call them to account.