The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall — Abdul Hye Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The Overwhelming Event

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ

Has the news of the overwhelming event (of Resurrection) reached you?

Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ

On that Day some faces will be humiliated (in the hellfire)

Wujoohun yawma-ithin khashiAAatun

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ

in hard labor, worn out,

AAamilatun nasibatun

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً

burn in the hot blazing fire,

Tasla naran hamiyatan

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ

given to drink from a boiling spring.

Tusqa min AAaynin aniyatin

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ

They will have no food except bitter thorny fruit,

Laysa lahum taAAamun illa min dareeAAin

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ

that will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger.

La yusminu wala yughnee min jooAAin

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ

Other faces on that Day will be joyful,

Wujoohun yawma-ithin naAAimatun

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ

pleased with their endeavors (of good deeds)

LisaAAyiha radiyatun

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ

in a high garden (Paradise).

Fee jannatin AAaliyatin

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً

They will hear no vain talk in it.

La tasmaAAu feeha laghiyatan

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ

They will have a running spring in it.

Feeha AAaynun jariyatun

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ

They will be on thrones raised high in it,

Feeha sururun marfooAAatun

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ

with cups placed at hand

Waakwabun mawdooAAatun

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ

and cushions set in rows

Wanamariqu masfoofatun

وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

and rich carpets spread out.

Wazarabiyyu mabthoothatun

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ

Don’t they look at the camels, how they are created?

Afala yanthuroona ila al-ibili kayfa khuliqat

وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

And the sky, how it is raised?

Wa-ila alssama-i kayfa rufiAAat

وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ

And the mountains, how they are fixed firmly?

Wa-ila aljibali kayfa nusibat

وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ

And the earth, how it is spread out?

Wa-ila al-ardi kayfa sutihat

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ

So remind them (O Muhammad), you are only a reminder,

Fathakkir innama anta muthakkirun

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

not a dictator over them.

Lasta AAalayhim bimusaytirin

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ

Except those who turn away and disbelieve,

Illa man tawalla wakafara

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ

then Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment.

FayuAAaththibuhu Allahu alAAathaba al-akbara

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ

Surely, to Us will be their return,

Inna ilayna iyabahum

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم

then surely, We will take their reckoning.

Thumma inna AAalayna hisabahum

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