Surah 88 / 114 · 26 verses · Meccan
الغَاشِيَةِ
Al-Ghashiyah
The Overwhelming
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بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming?
هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْغَٰشِيَةِ
On that day (many) faces will be downcast,
وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَٰشِعَةٌ
Toiling, weary,
عَامِلَةٌۭ نَّاصِبَةٌۭ
Scorched by burning fire,
تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةًۭ
Drinking from a boiling spring,
تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ ءَانِيَةٍۢ
No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit
لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍۢ
Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.
لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍۢ
In that day other faces will be calm,
وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ نَّاعِمَةٌۭ
Glad for their effort past,
لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌۭ
In a high Garden
فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍۢ
Where they hear no idle speech,
لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَٰغِيَةًۭ
Wherein is a gushing spring,
فِيهَا عَيْنٌۭ جَارِيَةٌۭ
Wherein are couches raised
فِيهَا سُرُرٌۭ مَّرْفُوعَةٌۭ
And goblets set at hand
وَأَكْوَابٌۭ مَّوْضُوعَةٌۭ
And cushions ranged
وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌۭ
And silken carpets spread.
وَزَرَابِىُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ
Will they not regard the camels, how they are created?
أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى ٱلْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ
And the heaven, how it is raised?
وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ
And the hills, how they are set up?
وَإِلَى ٱلْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ
And the earth, how it is spread?
وَإِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ
Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,
فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌۭ
Thou art not at all a warder over them.
لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ
But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,
إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ
Allah will punish him with direst punishment.
فَيُعَذِّبُهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَكْبَرَ
Lo! unto Us is their return
إِنَّ إِلَيْنَآ إِيَابَهُمْ
And Ours their reckoning.
ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم
Arabic text: Tanzil (tanzil.net) · Recitation: Mishary Rashid Alafasy, QuranicAudio