Al-Ghashiyah — English Translation

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْغَٰشِيَةِ ﴿1﴾

Hath there come Unto thee the story of the Enveloping Event?

وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَٰشِعَةٌ ﴿2﴾

Faces on that Day shall be downcast,

عَامِلَةٌۭ نَّاصِبَةٌۭ ﴿3﴾

Travailing, worn.

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةًۭ ﴿4﴾

They shall roast into the scalding Fire,

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ ءَانِيَةٍۢ ﴿5﴾

Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling.

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍۢ ﴿6﴾

No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn,

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍۢ ﴿7﴾

Which shall neither nourish nor avail against hunger.

وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ نَّاعِمَةٌۭ ﴿8﴾

Faces on that Day shall be de lighted,

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌۭ ﴿9﴾

With their endeavour well pleased.

فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍۢ ﴿10﴾

They shall be in a Garden lofty:

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَٰغِيَةًۭ ﴿11﴾

They shall hear therein no vain discourse;

فِيهَا عَيْنٌۭ جَارِيَةٌۭ ﴿12﴾

Therein shall be a spring running!

فِيهَا سُرُرٌۭ مَّرْفُوعَةٌۭ ﴿13﴾

Therein shall be couches elevated!

وَأَكْوَابٌۭ مَّوْضُوعَةٌۭ ﴿14﴾

And goblets ready placed!

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌۭ ﴿15﴾

And cushions ranged!

وَزَرَابِىُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ ﴿16﴾

And carpets ready spread,

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى ٱلْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ ﴿17﴾

Look they not at the camels, how they are created?

وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ ﴿18﴾

And at the heaven, how it is raised?

وَإِلَى ٱلْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ ﴿19﴾

And at the mountains, how they are rooted?

وَإِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ ﴿20﴾

And at the earth, how it is outspread?

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌۭ ﴿21﴾

Admonish thou then; thou art but an admonisher.

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ ﴿22﴾

Thou art not over them a warden.

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ ﴿23﴾

But whosoever will turn back and disbelieve -

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَكْبَرَ ﴿24﴾

Him Allah shall torment with the greatest torment.

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَآ إِيَابَهُمْ ﴿25﴾

Verily Unto us is their reckoning.

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم ﴿26﴾

Then verily on us is their reckoning.