Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هل أتاك حديث الغاشية
Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?
Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati
Chapter 88, 26 verses
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]?
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم هل أتاك حديث الغاشية
Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?
Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati
[Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled,
وجوه يومئذ خاشعة
(Some) faces on that day shall be downcast,
Wujoohun yawmaithin khashiAAatun
Working [hard] and exhausted.
عاملة ناصبة
Laboring, toiling,
AAamilatun nasibatun
They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire.
تصلى نارا حامية
Entering into burning fire,
Tasla naran hamiyatan
They will be given drink from a boiling spring.
تسقى من عين آنية
Made to drink from a boiling spring.
Tusqa min AAaynin aniyatin
For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant
ليس لهم طعام إلا من ضريع
They shall have no food but of thorns,
Laysa lahum taAAamun illa min dareeAAin
Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.
لا يسمن ولا يغني من جوع
Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.
La yusminu wala yughnee min jooAAin
[Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure.
وجوه يومئذ ناعمة
(Other) faces on that day shall be happy,
Wujoohun yawmaithin naAAimatun
With their effort [they are] satisfied
لسعيها راضية
Well - pleased because of their striving,
LisaAAyiha radiyatun
In an elevated garden,
في جنة عالية
In a lofty garden,
Fee jannatin AAaliyatin
Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech.
لا تسمع فيها لاغية
Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.
La tasmaAAu feeha laghiyatan
Within it is a flowing spring.
فيها عين جارية
Therein is a fountain flowing,
Feeha AAaynun jariyatun
Within it are couches raised high
فيها سرر مرفوعة
Therein are thrones raised high,
Feeha sururun marfooAAatun
And cups put in place
وأكواب موضوعة
And drinking - cups ready placed,
Waakwabun mawdooAAatun
And cushions lined up
ونمارق مصفوفة
And cushions set in a row,
Wanamariqu masfoofatun
And carpets spread around.
وزرابي مبثوثة
And carpets spread out.
Wazarabiyyu mabthoothatun
Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created?
أفلا ينظرون إلى الإبل كيف خلقت
Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created?
Afala yanthuroona ila alibili kayfa khuliqat
And at the sky - how it is raised?
وإلى السماء كيف رفعت
And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,
Waila alssamai kayfa rufiAAat
And at the mountains - how they are erected?
وإلى الجبال كيف نصبت
And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,
Waila aljibali kayfa nusibat
And at the earth - how it is spread out?
وإلى الأرض كيف سطحت
And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse?
Waila alardi kayfa sutihat
So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder.
فذكر إنما أنت مذكر
Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.
Fathakkir innama anta muthakkirun
You are not over them a controller.
لست عليهم بمصيطر
You are not a watcher over them;
Lasta AAalayhim bimusaytirin
However, he who turns away and disbelieves -
إلا من تولى وكفر
But whoever turns back and disbelieves,
Illa man tawalla wakafara
Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.
فيعذبه الله العذاب الأكبر
Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.
FayuAAaththibuhu Allahu alAAathaba alakbara
Indeed, to Us is their return.
إن إلينا إيابهم
Surely to Us is their turning back,
Inna ilayna iyabahum
Then indeed, upon Us is their account.
ثم إن علينا حسابهم
Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account.
Thumma inna AAalayna hisabahum