Surah Al-Ghashiyah · The Overwhelming

هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْغَـٰشِيَةِ ۝١

hal atāka ḥadīthu l-ghāshiyah

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

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَـٰشِعَةٌ ۝٢

wujūhun yawma-idhin khāshiʿah

[Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled,

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ ۝٣

ʿāmilatun nāṣibah

Working [hard] and exhausted.

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً ۝٤

taṣlā nāran ḥāmiyah

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

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ ءَانِيَةٍ ۝٥

tus'qā min ʿaynin āniyah

They will be given drink from a boiling spring.

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ ۝٦

laysa lahum ṭaʿāmun illā min ḍarīʿ

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

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍ ۝٧

lā yus'minu walā yugh'nī min jūʿ

Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ ۝٨

wujūhun yawma-idhin nāʿimah

[Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure.

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ ۝٩

lisaʿyihā rāḍiyah

With their effort [they are] satisfied

فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ ۝١٠

fī jannatin ʿāliyah

In an elevated garden,

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَـٰغِيَةً ۝١١

lā tasmaʿu fīhā lāghiyah

Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech.

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ ۝١٢

fīhā ʿaynun jāriyah

Within it is a flowing spring.

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ ۝١٣

fīhā sururun marfūʿah

Within it are couches raised high

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ ۝١٤

wa-akwābun mawḍūʿah

And cups put in place

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ ۝١٥

wanamāriqu maṣfūfah

And cushions lined up

وَزَرَابِىُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ ۝١٦

wazarābiyyu mabthūthah

And carpets spread around.

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى ٱلْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ ۝١٧

afalā yanẓurūna ilā l-ibili kayfa khuliqat

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

وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ ۝١٨

wa-ilā l-samāi kayfa rufiʿat

And at the sky - how it is raised?

وَإِلَى ٱلْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ ۝١٩

wa-ilā l-jibāli kayfa nuṣibat

And at the mountains - how they are erected?

وَإِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ ۝٢٠

wa-ilā l-arḍi kayfa suṭiḥat

And at the earth - how it is spread out?

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ ۝٢١

fadhakkir innamā anta mudhakkir

So remind, [O Muḥammad]; you are only a reminder.

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ ۝٢٢

lasta ʿalayhim bimuṣayṭir

You are not over them a controller.

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ ۝٢٣

illā man tawallā wakafar

However, he who turns away and disbelieves

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَكْبَرَ ۝٢٤

fayuʿadhibuhu l-lahu l-ʿadhāba l-akbar

Then Allāh will punish him with the greatest punishment.

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَآ إِيَابَهُمْ ۝٢٥

inna ilaynā iyābahum

Indeed, to Us is their return.

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم ۝٢٦

thumma inna ʿalaynā ḥisābahum

Then indeed, upon Us is their account.