Chapter 88, 26 verses
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ
Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming ?
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ
(Some) faces on that day shall be downcast,
On that day (many) faces will be downcast,
عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ
Laboring, toiling,
Toiling, weary,
تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً
Entering into burning fire,
Scorched by burning fire,
تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ
Made to drink from a boiling spring.
Drinking from a boiling spring,
لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ
They shall have no food but of thorns,
No food for them save bitter thorn - fruit
لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ
Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.
Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ
(Other) faces on that day shall be happy,
In that day other faces will be calm,
لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ
Well - pleased because of their striving,
Glad for their effort past,
فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ
In a lofty garden,
In a high Garden
لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً
Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.
Where they hear no idle speech,
فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ
Therein is a fountain flowing,
Wherein is a gushing spring,
فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ
Therein are thrones raised high,
Wherein are couches raised
وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ
And drinking - cups ready placed,
And goblets set at hand
وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ
And cushions set in a row,
And cushions ranged
وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ
And carpets spread out.
And silken carpets spread.
أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ
Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created?
Will they not regard the camels, how they are created ?
وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ
And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,
And the heaven, how it is raised ?
وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ
And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,
And the hills, how they are set up ?
وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ
And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse?
And the earth, how it is spread ?
فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ
Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.
Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,
لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ
You are not a watcher over them;
Thou art not at all a warder over them.
إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ
But whoever turns back and disbelieves,
But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,
فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ
Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.
Allah will punish him with direst punishment.
إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ
Surely to Us is their turning back,
Lo! unto Us is their return
ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم
Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account.
And Ours their reckoning.