88Al-Ghaashiya

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ

Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming?

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ

On that day (many) faces will be downcast,

عَامِلَةٌ نَاصِبَةٌ

Toiling, weary,

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً

Scorched by burning fire,

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ

Drinking from a boiling spring,

لَيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِنْ ضَرِيعٍ

No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit

لَا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِنْ جُوعٍ

Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَاعِمَةٌ

In that day other faces will be calm,

لِسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ

Glad for their effort past,

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ

In a high Garden

لَا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً

Where they hear no idle speech,

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ

Wherein is a gushing spring,

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَرْفُوعَةٌ

Wherein are couches raised

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَوْضُوعَةٌ

And goblets set at hand

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ

And cushions ranged

وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

And silken carpets spread.

أَفَلَا يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ

Will they not regard the camels, how they are created?

وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

And the heaven, how it is raised?

وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ

And the hills, how they are set up?

وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ

And the earth, how it is spread?

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنْتَ مُذَكِّرٌ

Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,

لَسْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

Thou art not at all a warder over them.

إِلَّا مَنْ تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ

But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ

Allah will punish him with direst punishment.

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ

Lo! unto Us is their return

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُمْ

And Ours their reckoning.