The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall — Al Muntakhab Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The Overwhelming Event

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ

Have you been informed of the great talk apropos the overwhelming Event?

Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ

Some faces are then incensed with humiliation

Wujoohun yawma-ithin khashiAAatun

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ

Reflecting the heedless life they spent uselessly, unprofitably and improvidently; and now they look faint and sick with travail and fear

AAamilatun nasibatun

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً

They are entering into Hell, to suffer the intense heat of the blazing Fire

Tasla naran hamiyatan

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ

Only to be given to drink from water bubbling in agitation and issuing from a boiling hot spring

Tusqa min AAaynin aniyatin

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ

And nothing will they feed on but poisonous, noxious, foul thorny shrubs

Laysa lahum taAAamun illa min dareeAAin

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ

Which neither nourish nor pacify their hunger pains

La yusminu wala yughnee min jooAAin

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ

There will be other faces radiant with delight

Wujoohun yawma-ithin naAAimatun

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ

Pleased with doing their endeavour in life lifting to Allah their inward sight

LisaAAyiha radiyatun

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ

Enjoying the exalted gardens of Bliss

Fee jannatin AAaliyatin

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً

No matter of little value or insignificance will they hear therein, nor will they hear ill - tongues or what is morally evil

La tasmaAAu feeha laghiyatan

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ

Therein is water streaming forth from a delightful spring

Feeha AAaynun jariyatun

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ

Therein are dignified seats covered with embroidered cloth woven in gold and ornamented with brocade

Feeha sururun marfooAAatun

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ

And drinking glasses set at hand

Waakwabun mawdooAAatun

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ

And cushions, ranked in rows, so bedecked and ornate

Wanamariqu masfoofatun

وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

And rich carpets all round

Wazarabiyyu mabthoothatun

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ

Do they - the pagan Arabs - not ponder how camels* were created

Afala yanthuroona ila al-ibili kayfa khuliqat

وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

How the heavens* have been distantly elevated

Wa-ila alssama-i kayfa rufiAAat

وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ

How the mountains* which stabilize the earth have been firmly erected

Wa-ila aljibali kayfa nusibat

وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ

And how the earth has been expanded* and prepared for life thereon

Wa-ila al-ardi kayfa sutihat

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ

You just continue to exhort the people, for you are here to put them in mind of Alla

Fathakkir innama anta muthakkirun

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

And no authority have you over them

Lasta AAalayhim bimusaytirin

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ

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

Illa man tawalla wakafara

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ

Will He requite him with a condign punishment and in Hell will he forever, be detained

FayuAAaththibuhu Allahu alAAathaba al-akbara

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ

Unto Us shall be their return

Inna ilayna iyabahum

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم

And then, their judgement will be Our concern

Thumma inna AAalayna hisabahum

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