Chapter 88, 26 verses
Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?
Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati
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,
Wujoohun yawmaithin khashiAAatun
Some faces, that Day will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians).
Laboring, toiling,
AAamilatun nasibatun
Labouring (hard in the worldly life by worshipping others besides Allah), weary (in the Hereafter with humility and disgrace).
Entering into burning fire,
Tasla naran hamiyatan
They will enter in the hot blazing Fire.
Made to drink from a boiling spring.
Tusqa min AAaynin aniyatin
They will be given to drink from a boiling spring,
They shall have no food but of thorns,
Laysa lahum taAAamun illa min dareeAAin
No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant,
Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.
La yusminu wala yughnee min jooAAin
Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger.
(Other) faces on that day shall be happy,
Wujoohun yawmaithin naAAimatun
(Other) faces that Day will be joyful,
Well - pleased because of their striving,
LisaAAyiha radiyatun
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,
Fee jannatin AAaliyatin
In a lofty Paradise.
Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.
La tasmaAAu feeha laghiyatan
Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood.
Therein is a fountain flowing,
Feeha AAaynun jariyatun
Therein will be a running spring.
Therein are thrones raised high,
Feeha sururun marfooAAatun
Therein will be thrones raised high.
And drinking - cups ready placed,
Waakwabun mawdooAAatun
And cups set at hand.
And cushions set in a row,
Wanamariqu masfoofatun
And cushions set in rows.
And carpets spread out.
Wazarabiyyu mabthoothatun
And rich carpets (all) spread out.
Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created?
Afala yanthuroona ila alibili kayfa khuliqat
Do they not look at the camels, how they are created?
And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,
Waila alssamai kayfa rufiAAat
And at the heaven, how it is raised?
And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,
Waila aljibali kayfa nusibat
And at the mountains, how they are rooted (and fixed firm)?
And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse?
Waila alardi kayfa sutihat
And at the earth, how it is outspread?
Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.
Fathakkir innama anta muthakkirun
So remind them (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) - you are only one who reminds.
You are not a watcher over them;
Lasta AAalayhim bimusaytirin
You are not a dictator over them -
But whoever turns back and disbelieves,
Illa man tawalla wakafara
Save the one who turns away and disbelieves.
Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.
FayuAAaththibuhu Allahu alAAathaba alakbara
Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.
Surely to Us is their turning back,
Inna ilayna iyabahum
Verily, to Us will be their return;
Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account.
Thumma inna AAalayna hisabahum
Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning.