هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ (1)
Have you been informed of the great talk apropos the overwhelming Event |
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ (2)
Some faces are then incensed with humiliation |
عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ (3)
Reflecting the heedless life they spent uselessly, unprofitably and improvidently; and now they look faint and sick with travail and fear |
تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً (4)
They are entering into Hell, to suffer the intense heat of the blazing Fire |
تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ (5)
Only to be given to drink from water bubbling in agitation and issuing from a boiling hot spring |
لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ (6)
And nothing will they feed on but poisonous, noxious, foul thorny shrubs |
لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ (7)
Which neither nourish nor pacify their hunger pains |
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ (8)
There will be other faces radiant with delight |
لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ (9)
Pleased with doing their endeavour in life lifting to Allah their inward sight |
فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ (10)
Enjoying the exalted gardens of Bliss |
لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً (11)
No matter of little value or insignificance will they hear therein, nor will they hear ill - tongues or what is morally evil |
فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ (12)
Therein is water streaming forth from a delightful spring |
فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ (13)
Therein are dignified seats covered with embroidered cloth woven in gold and ornamented with brocade |
وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ (14)
And drinking glasses set at hand |
وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ (15)
And cushions, ranked in rows, so bedecked and ornate |
وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ (16)
And rich carpets all round |
أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ (17)
Do they - the pagan Arabs - not ponder how camels* were created |
وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ (18)
How the heavens* have been distantly elevated |
وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ (19)
How the mountains* which stabilize the earth have been firmly erected |
وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ (20)
And how the earth has been expanded* and prepared for life thereon |
فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ (21)
You just continue to exhort the people, for you are here to put them in mind of Allah |
لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ (22)
And no authority have you over them |
إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ (23)
But he whose attitude has served to disincline him from doing reverence to Allah and to turn a deaf ear to all He has ordained |
فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ (24)
Will He requite him with a condign punishment and in Hell will he forever, be detained |
إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ (25)
Unto Us shall be their return |
ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم (26)
And then, their judgement will be Our concern |
