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?
[Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled,
وجوه يومئذ خاشعة
(Some) faces on that day shall be downcast,
Working [hard] and exhausted.
عاملة ناصبة
Laboring, toiling,
They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire.
تصلى نارا حامية
Entering into burning fire,
They will be given drink from a boiling spring.
تسقى من عين آنية
Made to drink from a boiling spring.
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,
Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.
لا يسمن ولا يغني من جوع
Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.
[Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure.
وجوه يومئذ ناعمة
(Other) faces on that day shall be happy,
With their effort [they are] satisfied
لسعيها راضية
Well - pleased because of their striving,
In an elevated garden,
في جنة عالية
In a lofty garden,
Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech.
لا تسمع فيها لاغية
Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.
Within it is a flowing spring.
فيها عين جارية
Therein is a fountain flowing,
Within it are couches raised high
فيها سرر مرفوعة
Therein are thrones raised high,
And cups put in place
وأكواب موضوعة
And drinking - cups ready placed,
And cushions lined up
ونمارق مصفوفة
And cushions set in a row,
And carpets spread around.
وزرابي مبثوثة
And carpets spread out.
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?
And at the sky - how it is raised?
وإلى السماء كيف رفعت
And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,
And at the mountains - how they are erected?
وإلى الجبال كيف نصبت
And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,
And at the earth - how it is spread out?
وإلى الأرض كيف سطحت
And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse?
So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder.
فذكر إنما أنت مذكر
Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.
You are not over them a controller.
لست عليهم بمصيطر
You are not a watcher over them;
However, he who turns away and disbelieves -
إلا من تولى وكفر
But whoever turns back and disbelieves,
Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.
فيعذبه الله العذاب الأكبر
Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.
Indeed, to Us is their return.
إن إلينا إيابهم
Surely to Us is their turning back,
Then indeed, upon Us is their account.
ثم إن علينا حسابهم
Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account.