The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall — Aisha Bewley Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The Overwhelming Event

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ

Has news of the Overwhelmer reached you?

Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ

Some faces on that Day will be downcast,

Wujoohun yawma-ithin khashiAAatun

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ

labouring, toiling endlessly,

AAamilatun nasibatun

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً

roasting in a red-hot Fire,

Tasla naran hamiyatan

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ

drinking from a boiling spring.

Tusqa min AAaynin aniyatin

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ

They have no food but a bitter thorny bush

Laysa lahum taAAamun illa min dareeAAin

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ

which neither nourishes nor satisfies.

La yusminu wala yughnee min jooAAin

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ

Some faces on that Day will be radiant,

Wujoohun yawma-ithin naAAimatun

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ

well-pleased with their efforts

LisaAAyiha radiyatun

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ

in an elevated Garden

Fee jannatin AAaliyatin

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً

where no prattle is ever heard.

La tasmaAAu feeha laghiyatan

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ

In it is a gushing spring

Feeha AAaynun jariyatun

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ

and raised-up couches,

Feeha sururun marfooAAatun

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ

and set-out goblets,

Waakwabun mawdooAAatun

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ

and lined-up cushions,

Wanamariqu masfoofatun

وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

and spread-out rugs.

Wazarabiyyu mabthoothatun

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ

Have they not looked at the camel — how it was created?

Afala yanthuroona ila al-ibili kayfa khuliqat

وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

and at the sky — how it was raised up?

Wa-ila alssama-i kayfa rufiAAat

وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ

and at the mountains — how they were embedded?

Wa-ila aljibali kayfa nusibat

وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ

and at the earth — how it was smoothed out?

Wa-ila al-ardi kayfa sutihat

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ

So remind them! You are only a reminder.

Fathakkir innama anta muthakkirun

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

You are not in control of them.

Lasta AAalayhim bimusaytirin

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ

But as for anyone who turns away and is kafir,

Illa man tawalla wakafara

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ

Allah will punish him with the Greatest Punishment.

FayuAAaththibuhu Allahu alAAathaba al-akbara

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ

Certainly it is to Us they will return.

Inna ilayna iyabahum

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم

Then their Reckoning is Our concern.

Thumma inna AAalayna hisabahum

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