Kitab

Al Gashiya

Chapter 88, 26 verses

  • Shakir
  • Arabic, with marks
  • Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Shakir

Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?

Arabic, with marks

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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)?

Shakir

(Some) faces on that day shall be downcast,

Arabic, with marks

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

Some faces, that Day will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians).

Shakir

Laboring, toiling,

Arabic, with marks

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

Labouring (hard in the worldly life by worshipping others besides Allah), weary (in the Hereafter with humility and disgrace).

Shakir

Entering into burning fire,

Arabic, with marks

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

They will enter in the hot blazing Fire.

Shakir

Made to drink from a boiling spring.

Arabic, with marks

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

They will be given to drink from a boiling spring,

Shakir

They shall have no food but of thorns,

Arabic, with marks

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant,

Shakir

Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.

Arabic, with marks

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger.

Shakir

(Other) faces on that day shall be happy,

Arabic, with marks

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

(Other) faces that Day will be joyful,

Shakir

Well - pleased because of their striving,

Arabic, with marks

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

Glad with their endeavour (for their good deeds which they did in this world, along with the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism).

Shakir

In a lofty garden,

Arabic, with marks

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

In a lofty Paradise.

Shakir

Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.

Arabic, with marks

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood.

Shakir

Therein is a fountain flowing,

Arabic, with marks

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

Therein will be a running spring.

Shakir

Therein are thrones raised high,

Arabic, with marks

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

Therein will be thrones raised high.

Shakir

And drinking - cups ready placed,

Arabic, with marks

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

And cups set at hand.

Shakir

And cushions set in a row,

Arabic, with marks

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

And cushions set in rows.

Shakir

And carpets spread out.

Arabic, with marks

وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

And rich carpets (all) spread out.

Shakir

Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created?

Arabic, with marks

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

Do they not look at the camels, how they are created?

Shakir

And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,

Arabic, with marks

وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

And at the heaven, how it is raised?

Shakir

And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,

Arabic, with marks

وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

And at the mountains, how they are rooted (and fixed firm)?

Shakir

And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse?

Arabic, with marks

وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

And at the earth, how it is outspread?

Shakir

Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.

Arabic, with marks

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

So remind them (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) - you are only one who reminds.

Shakir

You are not a watcher over them;

Arabic, with marks

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

You are not a dictator over them -

Shakir

But whoever turns back and disbelieves,

Arabic, with marks

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

Save the one who turns away and disbelieves.

Shakir

Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.

Arabic, with marks

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.

Shakir

Surely to Us is their turning back,

Arabic, with marks

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

Verily, to Us will be their return;

Shakir

Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account.

Arabic, with marks

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning.

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