Al Gashiya

Shakir

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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)?

Pickthall

1 In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming ?

Shakir

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Pickthall

2 On that day (many) faces will be downcast,

Shakir

3 Laboring, toiling,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Pickthall

3 Toiling, weary,

Shakir

4 Entering into burning fire,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

4 They will enter in the hot blazing Fire.

Pickthall

4 Scorched by burning fire,

Shakir

5 Made to drink from a boiling spring.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Pickthall

5 Drinking from a boiling spring,

Shakir

6 They shall have no food but of thorns,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Pickthall

6 No food for them save bitter thorn - fruit

Shakir

7 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

7 Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger.

Pickthall

7 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.

Shakir

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

8 (Other) faces that Day will be joyful,

Pickthall

8 In that day other faces will be calm,

Shakir

9 Well - pleased because of their striving,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Pickthall

9 Glad for their effort past,

Shakir

10 In a lofty garden,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

10 In a lofty Paradise.

Pickthall

10 In a high Garden

Shakir

11 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

11 Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood.

Pickthall

11 Where they hear no idle speech,

Shakir

12 Therein is a fountain flowing,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

12 Therein will be a running spring.

Pickthall

12 Wherein is a gushing spring,

Shakir

13 Therein are thrones raised high,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

13 Therein will be thrones raised high.

Pickthall

13 Wherein are couches raised

Shakir

14 And drinking - cups ready placed,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

14 And cups set at hand.

Pickthall

14 And goblets set at hand

Shakir

15 And cushions set in a row,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

15 And cushions set in rows.

Pickthall

15 And cushions ranged

Shakir

16 And carpets spread out.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

16 And rich carpets (all) spread out.

Pickthall

16 And silken carpets spread.

Shakir

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Pickthall

17 Will they not regard the camels, how they are created ?

Shakir

18 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

18 And at the heaven, how it is raised?

Pickthall

18 And the heaven, how it is raised ?

Shakir

19 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Pickthall

19 And the hills, how they are set up ?

Shakir

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

20 And at the earth, how it is outspread?

Pickthall

20 And the earth, how it is spread ?

Shakir

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

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

Pickthall

21 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,

Shakir

22 You are not a watcher over them;

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

22 You are not a dictator over them -

Pickthall

22 Thou art not at all a warder over them.

Shakir

23 But whoever turns back and disbelieves,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

23 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves.

Pickthall

23 But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,

Shakir

24 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

24 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.

Pickthall

24 Allah will punish him with direst punishment.

Shakir

25 Surely to Us is their turning back,

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

25 Verily, to Us will be their return;

Pickthall

25 Lo! unto Us is their return

Shakir

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

Hilali & Muhsin Khan

26 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning.

Pickthall

26 And Ours their reckoning.