The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall — Ali Aoenal Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The Overwhelming Event

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ

Has the account of the Overwhelming come to you

Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ

Some faces will on that Day be downcast

Wujoohun yawma-ithin khashiAAatun

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ

Having toiled (in the world) only to weariness (with no portion in the Hereafter)

AAamilatun nasibatun

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً

They will enter the hot, burning Fire to roast

Tasla naran hamiyatan

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ

They will be given to drink from a boiling spring

Tusqa min AAaynin aniyatin

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ

No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant

Laysa lahum taAAamun illa min dareeAAin

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ

It will neither nourish nor avail against hunger

La yusminu wala yughnee min jooAAin

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ

And some faces on that Day will be in delight

Wujoohun yawma-ithin naAAimatun

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ

Well-pleased with (the fruit of) their endeavor (in the world)

LisaAAyiha radiyatun

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ

In a lofty Garden

Fee jannatin AAaliyatin

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً

Wherein they will hear no idle talk

La tasmaAAu feeha laghiyatan

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ

Therein will be a flowing spring

Feeha AAaynun jariyatun

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ

Therein couches raised high

Feeha sururun marfooAAatun

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ

And goblets placed ready

Waakwabun mawdooAAatun

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ

And cushions arrayed

Wanamariqu masfoofatun

وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

And rich carpets spread out

Wazarabiyyu mabthoothatun

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ

Do they not consider the camels, how they are created

Afala yanthuroona ila al-ibili kayfa khuliqat

وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

And the heaven, how it has been raised high

Wa-ila alssama-i kayfa rufiAAat

وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ

And the mountains, how they have been set firm

Wa-ila aljibali kayfa nusibat

وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ

And the earth, how it has been spread out

Wa-ila al-ardi kayfa sutihat

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ

And so remind and exhort (them), for you are one (whose duty is) to remind and exhort

Fathakkir innama anta muthakkirun

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

You are not one to dictate (faith) to them

Lasta AAalayhim bimusaytirin

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ

But whoever turns away (averse to reminder and exhortation), and disbelieves (in what is conveyed to him)

Illa man tawalla wakafara

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ

God will punish him with the greatest punishment (of Hell)

FayuAAaththibuhu Allahu alAAathaba al-akbara

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ

Indeed to Us is their return

Inna ilayna iyabahum

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم

Thereafter it is for Us to call them to account

Thumma inna AAalayna hisabahum

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