Al Gashiya

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

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

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

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

3 Toiling, weary,

3 Laboring, toiling,

4 Scorched by burning fire,

4 Entering into burning fire,

5 Drinking from a boiling spring,

5 Made to drink from a boiling spring.

6 No food for them save bitter thorn - fruit

6 They shall have no food but of thorns,

7 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.

7 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.

8 In that day other faces will be calm,

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

9 Glad for their effort past,

9 Well - pleased because of their striving,

10 In a high Garden

10 In a lofty garden,

11 Where they hear no idle speech,

11 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.

12 Wherein is a gushing spring,

12 Therein is a fountain flowing,

13 Wherein are couches raised

13 Therein are thrones raised high,

14 And goblets set at hand

14 And drinking - cups ready placed,

15 And cushions ranged

15 And cushions set in a row,

16 And silken carpets spread.

16 And carpets spread out.

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

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

18 And the heaven, how it is raised ?

18 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,

19 And the hills, how they are set up ?

19 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,

20 And the earth, how it is spread ?

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

21 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,

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

22 Thou art not at all a warder over them.

22 You are not a watcher over them;

23 But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,

23 But whoever turns back and disbelieves,

24 Allah will punish him with direst punishment.

24 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.

25 Lo! unto Us is their return

25 Surely to Us is their turning back,

26 And Ours their reckoning.

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