Al Gashiya

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

Shakir

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

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

Shakir

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

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3 Working [hard] and exhausted.

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3 Laboring, toiling,

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

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4 Entering into burning fire,

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5 They will be given drink from a boiling spring.

Shakir

5 Made to drink from a boiling spring.

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

Shakir

6 They shall have no food but of thorns,

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7 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.

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7 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.

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

Shakir

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

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9 With their effort [they are] satisfied

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9 Well - pleased because of their striving,

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10 In an elevated garden,

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10 In a lofty garden,

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11 Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech.

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11 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.

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12 Within it is a flowing spring.

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12 Therein is a fountain flowing,

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13 Within it are couches raised high

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13 Therein are thrones raised high,

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14 And cups put in place

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14 And drinking - cups ready placed,

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15 And cushions lined up

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15 And cushions set in a row,

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16 And carpets spread around.

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16 And carpets spread out.

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

Shakir

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

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18 And at the sky - how it is raised?

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18 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,

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19 And at the mountains - how they are erected?

Shakir

19 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,

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

Shakir

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

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

Shakir

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

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22 You are not over them a controller.

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22 You are not a watcher over them;

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23 However, he who turns away and disbelieves -

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23 But whoever turns back and disbelieves,

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24 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.

Shakir

24 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.

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25 Indeed, to Us is their return.

Shakir

25 Surely to Us is their turning back,

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26 Then indeed, upon Us is their account.

Shakir

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