Chapter 88, 26 verses
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هل أتاك حديث الغاشية
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming ?
[Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled,
وجوه يومئذ خاشعة
On that day (many) faces will be downcast,
Working [hard] and exhausted.
عاملة ناصبة
Toiling, weary,
They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire.
تصلى نارا حامية
Scorched by burning fire,
They will be given drink from a boiling spring.
تسقى من عين آنية
Drinking from a boiling spring,
For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant
ليس لهم طعام إلا من ضريع
No food for them save bitter thorn - fruit
Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.
لا يسمن ولا يغني من جوع
Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.
[Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure.
وجوه يومئذ ناعمة
In that day other faces will be calm,
With their effort [they are] satisfied
لسعيها راضية
Glad for their effort past,
In an elevated garden,
في جنة عالية
In a high Garden
Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech.
لا تسمع فيها لاغية
Where they hear no idle speech,
Within it is a flowing spring.
فيها عين جارية
Wherein is a gushing spring,
Within it are couches raised high
فيها سرر مرفوعة
Wherein are couches raised
And cups put in place
وأكواب موضوعة
And goblets set at hand
And cushions lined up
ونمارق مصفوفة
And cushions ranged
And carpets spread around.
وزرابي مبثوثة
And silken carpets spread.
Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created?
أفلا ينظرون إلى الإبل كيف خلقت
Will they not regard the camels, how they are created ?
And at the sky - how it is raised?
وإلى السماء كيف رفعت
And the heaven, how it is raised ?
And at the mountains - how they are erected?
وإلى الجبال كيف نصبت
And the hills, how they are set up ?
And at the earth - how it is spread out?
وإلى الأرض كيف سطحت
And the earth, how it is spread ?
So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder.
فذكر إنما أنت مذكر
Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,
You are not over them a controller.
لست عليهم بمصيطر
Thou art not at all a warder over them.
However, he who turns away and disbelieves -
إلا من تولى وكفر
But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,
Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.
فيعذبه الله العذاب الأكبر
Allah will punish him with direst punishment.
Indeed, to Us is their return.
إن إلينا إيابهم
Lo! unto Us is their return
Then indeed, upon Us is their account.
ثم إن علينا حسابهم
And Ours their reckoning.