Al Gashiya

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

1 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)?

2 (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast,

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

3 Laboring, toiling,

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

4 Entering into burning fire,

4 They will enter in the hot blazing Fire.

5 Made to drink from a boiling spring.

5 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring,

6 They shall have no food but of thorns,

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

7 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.

7 Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger.

8 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy,

8 (Other) faces that Day will be joyful,

9 Well - pleased because of their striving,

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

10 In a lofty garden,

10 In a lofty Paradise.

11 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.

11 Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood.

12 Therein is a fountain flowing,

12 Therein will be a running spring.

13 Therein are thrones raised high,

13 Therein will be thrones raised high.

14 And drinking - cups ready placed,

14 And cups set at hand.

15 And cushions set in a row,

15 And cushions set in rows.

16 And carpets spread out.

16 And rich carpets (all) spread out.

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

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

18 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,

18 And at the heaven, how it is raised?

19 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,

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

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

20 And at the earth, how it is outspread?

21 Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.

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

22 You are not a watcher over them;

22 You are not a dictator over them -

23 But whoever turns back and disbelieves,

23 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves.

24 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.

24 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.

25 Surely to Us is their turning back,

25 Verily, to Us will be their return;

26 Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account.

26 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning.