The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall — Ahmed Hulusi Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The Overwhelming Event

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ

Did the news reach you of the Ghashiya (the overwhelming event that wraps and covers people – Doomsday)?

Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ

(Some) faces that day will look down in shame!

Wujoohun yawma-ithin khashiAAatun

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ

Having worked hard (complying with customs, traditions and customary practices of worship) and exhausted for nothing!

AAamilatun nasibatun

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً

They (those faces) will be subject to an intense fire!

Tasla naran hamiyatan

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ

They will be made to drink from a boiling spring!

Tusqa min AAaynin aniyatin

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ

And there will be no food for them, except for a poisonous thorny plant,

Laysa lahum taAAamun illa min dareeAAin

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ

Which will neither nourish them nor appease their hunger.

La yusminu wala yughnee min jooAAin

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ

And many faces that day will show signs of pleasure.

Wujoohun yawma-ithin naAAimatun

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ

They will be pleased with the results of their (duly spent) efforts!

LisaAAyiha radiyatun

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ

In an elevated Paradise!

Fee jannatin AAaliyatin

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً

They will hear no baseless speech therein.

La tasmaAAu feeha laghiyatan

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ

Within a (continually) flowing spring (of knowledge and power),

Feeha AAaynun jariyatun

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ

Couches raised high,

Feeha sururun marfooAAatun

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ

And cups put in place,

Waakwabun mawdooAAatun

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ

And cushions lined up (behind them),

Wanamariqu masfoofatun

وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

And carpets spread (beneath them),

Wazarabiyyu mabthoothatun

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ

Do they not look at the camels (rain clouds), how they are created?

Afala yanthuroona ila al-ibili kayfa khuliqat

وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

And (do they not look at) the sky, how it has been raised (how space has been formed)!

Wa-ila alssama-i kayfa rufiAAat

وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ

And (do they not look at) the mountains, how they have been set!

Wa-ila aljibali kayfa nusibat

وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ

And (do they not look at) the earth, how it has been furnished!

Wa-ila al-ardi kayfa sutihat

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ

So remind! For you are a reminder (you have been disclosed to remind them of their essential reality)!

Fathakkir innama anta muthakkirun

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

You are not a controller and imposer over them!

Lasta AAalayhim bimusaytirin

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ

But whoever turns away and covers (denies and refuses to see the reality),

Illa man tawalla wakafara

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ

Allah will subject him to the greatest suffering!

FayuAAaththibuhu Allahu alAAathaba al-akbara

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ

Indeed, to Us is their return,

Inna ilayna iyabahum

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم

And it is up to Us to make them live the consequences of their deeds!

Thumma inna AAalayna hisabahum

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