Chapter 88, 26 verses
Has the story reached thee 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 humiliated,
وجوه يومئذ خاشعة
On that day (many) faces will be downcast,
Labouring (hard), weary, -
عاملة ناصبة
Toiling, weary,
The while they enter the Blazing Fire, -
تصلى نارا حامية
Scorched by burning fire,
The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring,
تسقى من عين آنية
Drinking from a boiling spring,
No food will there be for them but a bitter Dhari'
ليس لهم طعام إلا من ضريع
No food for them save bitter thorn - fruit
Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger.
لا يسمن ولا يغني من جوع
Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.
(Other) faces that Day will be joyful,
وجوه يومئذ ناعمة
In that day other faces will be calm,
Pleased with their striving, -
لسعيها راضية
Glad for their effort past,
In a Garden on high,
في جنة عالية
In a high Garden
Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity:
لا تسمع فيها لاغية
Where they hear no idle speech,
Therein will be a bubbling spring:
فيها عين جارية
Wherein is a gushing spring,
Therein will be Thrones (of dignity), raised on high,
فيها سرر مرفوعة
Wherein are couches raised
Goblets placed (ready),
وأكواب موضوعة
And goblets set at hand
And cushions set in rows,
ونمارق مصفوفة
And cushions ranged
And rich carpets (all) spread out.
وزرابي مبثوثة
And silken carpets spread.
Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made? -
أفلا ينظرون إلى الإبل كيف خلقت
Will they not regard the camels, how they are created ?
And at the Sky, how it is raised high? -
وإلى السماء كيف رفعت
And the heaven, how it is raised ?
And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm? -
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 ?
Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish.
فذكر إنما أنت مذكر
Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,
Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs.
لست عليهم بمصيطر
Thou art not at all a warder over them.
But if any turn away and reject Allah, -
إلا من تولى وكفر
But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,
Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment,
فيعذبه الله العذاب الأكبر
Allah will punish him with direst punishment.
For to Us will be their return;
إن إلينا إيابهم
Lo! unto Us is their return
Then it will be for Us to call them to account.
ثم إن علينا حسابهم
And Ours their reckoning.