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