الغاشـيـة

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

1 Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati

1 Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)?

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

2 Wujoohun yawmaithin khashiAAatun

2 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated,

3 Toiling, weary,

3 AAamilatun nasibatun

3 Labouring (hard), weary, -

4 Scorched by burning fire,

4 Tasla naran hamiyatan

4 The while they enter the Blazing Fire, -

5 Drinking from a boiling spring,

5 Tusqa min AAaynin aniyatin

5 The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring,

6 No food for them save bitter thorn - fruit

6 Laysa lahum taAAamun illa min dareeAAin

6 No food will there be for them but a bitter Dhari'

7 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.

7 La yusminu wala yughnee min jooAAin

7 Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger.

8 In that day other faces will be calm,

8 Wujoohun yawmaithin naAAimatun

8 (Other) faces that Day will be joyful,

9 Glad for their effort past,

9 LisaAAyiha radiyatun

9 Pleased with their striving, -

10 In a high Garden

10 Fee jannatin AAaliyatin

10 In a Garden on high,

11 Where they hear no idle speech,

11 La tasmaAAu feeha laghiyatan

11 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity:

12 Wherein is a gushing spring,

12 Feeha AAaynun jariyatun

12 Therein will be a bubbling spring:

13 Wherein are couches raised

13 Feeha sururun marfooAAatun

13 Therein will be Thrones (of dignity), raised on high,

14 And goblets set at hand

14 Waakwabun mawdooAAatun

14 Goblets placed (ready),

15 And cushions ranged

15 Wanamariqu masfoofatun

15 And cushions set in rows,

16 And silken carpets spread.

16 Wazarabiyyu mabthoothatun

16 And rich carpets (all) spread out.

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

17 Afala yanthuroona ila alibili kayfa khuliqat

17 Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made? -

18 And the heaven, how it is raised ?

18 Waila alssamai kayfa rufiAAat

18 And at the Sky, how it is raised high? -

19 And the hills, how they are set up ?

19 Waila aljibali kayfa nusibat

19 And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm? -

20 And the earth, how it is spread ?

20 Waila alardi kayfa sutihat

20 And at the Earth, how it is spread out?

21 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,

21 Fathakkir innama anta muthakkirun

21 Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish.

22 Thou art not at all a warder over them.

22 Lasta AAalayhim bimusaytirin

22 Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs.

23 But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,

23 Illa man tawalla wakafara

23 But if any turn away and reject Allah, -

24 Allah will punish him with direst punishment.

24 FayuAAaththibuhu Allahu alAAathaba alakbara

24 Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment,

25 Lo! unto Us is their return

25 Inna ilayna iyabahum

25 For to Us will be their return;

26 And Ours their reckoning.

26 Thumma inna AAalayna hisabahum

26 Then it will be for Us to call them to account.