Surah Al-Ghashiyah

هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْغَٰشِيَةِ ۝١

Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event?

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَٰشِعَةٌ ۝٢

On that Day, there shall be downcast faces,

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ ۝٣

labouring, weary,

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً ۝٤

they shall enter a burning Fire

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ ءَانِيَةٍ ۝٥

and will be made to drink from a boiling spring,

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ ۝٦

they shall have no food but thorns,

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍ ۝٧

which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger.

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ ۝٨

Some faces on that Day will be radiant,

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ ۝٩

well pleased with the result of their striving,

فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ ۝١٠

in a sublime garden,

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَٰغِيَةً ۝١١

where they will hear no idle talk,

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ ۝١٢

with a flowing spring,

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ ۝١٣

raised couches,

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ ۝١٤

and goblets set at hand,

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ ۝١٥

cushions ranged,

وَزَرَابِىُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ ۝١٦

and carpets spread out.

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى ٱلْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ ۝١٧

Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created,

وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ ۝١٨

and on the sky, how it is raised aloft,

وَإِلَى ٱلْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ ۝١٩

and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up,

وَإِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ ۝٢٠

and on the earth, how it is spread out?

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ ۝٢١

So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort,

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ ۝٢٢

you are not their keeper.

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ ۝٢٣

But whoever turns back and denies the truth,

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَكْبَرَ ۝٢٤

will be punished by God with the greatest punishment.

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَآ إِيَابَهُمْ ۝٢٥

Certainly, it is to Us that they will return.

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم ۝٢٦

Then, surely, it is for Us to call them to account.