Al Gashiya

1 Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]?

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

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

2 [Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled,

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

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

3 Working [hard] and exhausted.

3 Laboring, toiling,

3 Toiling, weary,

4 They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire.

4 Entering into burning fire,

4 Scorched by burning fire,

5 They will be given drink from a boiling spring.

5 Made to drink from a boiling spring.

5 Drinking from a boiling spring,

6 For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant

6 They shall have no food but of thorns,

6 No food for them save bitter thorn - fruit

7 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.

7 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.

7 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.

8 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure.

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

8 In that day other faces will be calm,

9 With their effort [they are] satisfied

9 Well - pleased because of their striving,

9 Glad for their effort past,

10 In an elevated garden,

10 In a lofty garden,

10 In a high Garden

11 Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech.

11 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.

11 Where they hear no idle speech,

12 Within it is a flowing spring.

12 Therein is a fountain flowing,

12 Wherein is a gushing spring,

13 Within it are couches raised high

13 Therein are thrones raised high,

13 Wherein are couches raised

14 And cups put in place

14 And drinking - cups ready placed,

14 And goblets set at hand

15 And cushions lined up

15 And cushions set in a row,

15 And cushions ranged

16 And carpets spread around.

16 And carpets spread out.

16 And silken carpets spread.

17 Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created?

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

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

18 And at the sky - how it is raised?

18 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,

18 And the heaven, how it is raised ?

19 And at the mountains - how they are erected?

19 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,

19 And the hills, how they are set up ?

20 And at the earth - how it is spread out?

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

20 And the earth, how it is spread ?

21 So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder.

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

21 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,

22 You are not over them a controller.

22 You are not a watcher over them;

22 Thou art not at all a warder over them.

23 However, he who turns away and disbelieves -

23 But whoever turns back and disbelieves,

23 But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,

24 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.

24 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.

24 Allah will punish him with direst punishment.

25 Indeed, to Us is their return.

25 Surely to Us is their turning back,

25 Lo! unto Us is their return

26 Then indeed, upon Us is their account.

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

26 And Ours their reckoning.