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Surah Al-Ghaashiya (The Overwhelming)

(سورة الغَاشِيَةِ)
Surah 88 • Category: Meccan • Verses: 26
1

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ

English Translation
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]?
2

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ

English Translation
[Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled,
3

عَامِلَةٌ نَاصِبَةٌ

English Translation
Working [hard] and exhausted.
4

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً

English Translation
They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire.
5

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ

English Translation
They will be given drink from a boiling spring.
6

لَيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِنْ ضَرِيعٍ

English Translation
For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant
7

لَا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِنْ جُوعٍ

English Translation
Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.
8

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَاعِمَةٌ

English Translation
[Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure.
9

لِسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ

English Translation
With their effort [they are] satisfied
10

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ

English Translation
In an elevated garden,
11

لَا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً

English Translation
Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech.
12

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ

English Translation
Within it is a flowing spring.
13

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَرْفُوعَةٌ

English Translation
Within it are couches raised high
14

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَوْضُوعَةٌ

English Translation
And cups put in place
15

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ

English Translation
And cushions lined up
16

وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

English Translation
And carpets spread around.
17

أَفَلَا يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ

English Translation
Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created?
18

وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

English Translation
And at the sky - how it is raised?
19

وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ

English Translation
And at the mountains - how they are erected?
20

وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ

English Translation
And at the earth - how it is spread out?
21

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنْتَ مُذَكِّرٌ

English Translation
So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder.
22

لَسْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

English Translation
You are not over them a controller.
23

إِلَّا مَنْ تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ

English Translation
However, he who turns away and disbelieves -
24

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ

English Translation
Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment.
25

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ

English Translation
Indeed, to Us is their return.
26

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُمْ

English Translation
Then indeed, upon Us is their account.

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