Al-Ghashiyah · The Overwhelming

هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْغَـٰشِيَةِ ﴿١﴾

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

hal atāka ḥadīthu l-ghāshiyati

وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَـٰشِعَةٌ ﴿٢﴾

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

wujūhun yawma-idhin khāshiʿatun

عَامِلَةٌۭ نَّاصِبَةٌۭ ﴿٣﴾

Working [hard] and exhausted.

ʿāmilatun nāṣibatun

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةًۭ ﴿٤﴾

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

taṣlā nāran ḥāmiyatan

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ ءَانِيَةٍۢ ﴿٥﴾

They will be given drink from a boiling spring.

tus'qā min ʿaynin āniyatin

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍۢ ﴿٦﴾

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

laysa lahum ṭaʿāmun illā min ḍarīʿin

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍۢ ﴿٧﴾

Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.

lā yus'minu walā yugh'nī min jūʿin

وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ نَّاعِمَةٌۭ ﴿٨﴾

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

wujūhun yawma-idhin nāʿimatun

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌۭ ﴿٩﴾

With their effort [they are] satisfied

lisaʿyihā rāḍiyatun

فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍۢ ﴿١٠﴾

In an elevated garden,

fī jannatin ʿāliyatin

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَـٰغِيَةًۭ ﴿١١﴾

Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech.

lā tasmaʿu fīhā lāghiyatan

فِيهَا عَيْنٌۭ جَارِيَةٌۭ ﴿١٢﴾

Within it is a flowing spring.

fīhā ʿaynun jāriyatun

فِيهَا سُرُرٌۭ مَّرْفُوعَةٌۭ ﴿١٣﴾

Within it are couches raised high

fīhā sururun marfūʿatun

وَأَكْوَابٌۭ مَّوْضُوعَةٌۭ ﴿١٤﴾

And cups put in place

wa-akwābun mawḍūʿatun

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌۭ ﴿١٥﴾

And cushions lined up

wanamāriqu maṣfūfatun

وَزَرَابِىُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ ﴿١٦﴾

And carpets spread around.

wazarābiyyu mabthūthatun

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى ٱلْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ ﴿١٧﴾

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

afalā yanẓurūna ilā l-ibili kayfa khuliqat

وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ ﴿١٨﴾

And at the sky - how it is raised?

wa-ilā l-samāi kayfa rufiʿat

وَإِلَى ٱلْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ ﴿١٩﴾

And at the mountains - how they are erected?

wa-ilā l-jibāli kayfa nuṣibat

وَإِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ ﴿٢٠﴾

And at the earth - how it is spread out?

wa-ilā l-arḍi kayfa suṭiḥat

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌۭ ﴿٢١﴾

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

fadhakkir innamā anta mudhakkirun

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ ﴿٢٢﴾

You are not over them a controller.

lasta ʿalayhim bimuṣayṭirin

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ ﴿٢٣﴾

However, he who turns away and disbelieves

illā man tawallā wakafara

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَكْبَرَ ﴿٢٤﴾

Then Allāh will punish him with the greatest punishment.

fayuʿadhibuhu l-lahu l-ʿadhāba l-akbara

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَآ إِيَابَهُمْ ﴿٢٥﴾

Indeed, to Us is their return.

inna ilaynā iyābahum

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم ﴿٢٦﴾

Then indeed, upon Us is their account.

thumma inna ʿalaynā ḥisābahum