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Al-Ghashiyah (The Overwhelming)

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Al-Ghashiyah (The Overwhelming)

Translation

Verses 1-26

بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ

In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ (1)

Has there come to you the story of the overwhelming (event)?
[Al Quran ; 88:1]

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ (2)

Faces will be, on that day, humbled.
[Al Quran ; 88:2]

عَامِلَةٌ نَاصِبَةٌ (3)

Labouring, exhausted.
[Al Quran ; 88:3]

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً (4)

Reaching a hot fire.
[Al Quran ; 88:4]

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ (5)

They are made to drink from a boiling spring.
[Al Quran ; 88:5]

لَيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِنْ ضَرِيعٍ (6)

There will be for them no food except from thorn.
[Al Quran ; 88:6]

لَا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِنْ جُوعٍ (7)

Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.
[Al Quran ; 88:7]

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَاعِمَةٌ (8)

Faces will be, on that day, delighted.
[Al Quran ; 88:8]

لِسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ (9)

With their effort pleased.
[Al Quran ; 88:9]

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ (10)

In an elevated garden.
[Al Quran ; 88:10]

لَا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً (11)

They will not hear therein vain talk.
[Al Quran ; 88:11]

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ (12)

Therein is a flowing spring.
[Al Quran ; 88:12]

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَرْفُوعَةٌ (13)

Therein are raised couches.
[Al Quran ; 88:13]

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَوْضُوعَةٌ (14)

And cups put in place.
[Al Quran ; 88:14]

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ (15)

And cushions lined up.
[Al Quran ; 88:15]

وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ (16)

And carpets spread around.
[Al Quran ; 88:16]

أَفَلَا يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ (17)

Then do they not look at the camels, how they are created?
[Al Quran ; 88:17]

وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ (18)

And at the sky, how it is raised?
[Al Quran ; 88:18]

وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ (19)

And at the mountains, how they are erected?
[Al Quran ; 88:19]

وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ (20)

And at the earth, how it is surfaced?
[Al Quran ; 88:20]

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنْتَ مُذَكِّرٌ (21)

So remind, for you are only a reminder.
[Al Quran ; 88:21]

لَسْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ بِمُصَيْطِرٍ (22)

You are not over them controlling.
[Al Quran ; 88:22]

إِلَّا مَنْ تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ (23)

Except whoever turns away and disbelieves.
[Al Quran ; 88:23]

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ (24)

Then Allah will castigate him with the greatest torture.
[Al Quran ; 88:24]

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ (25)

Indeed, to Us is their return.
[Al Quran ; 88:25]

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُمْ (26)

Then indeed, upon Us is their reckoning.
[Al Quran ; 88:26]

Checked on 3/9/2010