The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall — Faridul Haque Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The Overwhelming Event

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ

Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you

Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ

Many a face will be disgraced on that day

Wujoohun yawma-ithin khashiAAatun

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ

Labouring, striving hard

AAamilatun nasibatun

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً

(Yet) Going into the blazing fire

Tasla naran hamiyatan

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ

Made to drink water from the boiling hot spring

Tusqa min AAaynin aniyatin

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ

There is no food for them except thorns of fire

Laysa lahum taAAamun illa min dareeAAin

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ

Which neither give strength nor satisfy the hunger

La yusminu wala yughnee min jooAAin

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ

Many a face will be in serenity on that day

Wujoohun yawma-ithin naAAimatun

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ

Rejoicing over their efforts

LisaAAyiha radiyatun

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ

In a high Garden

Fee jannatin AAaliyatin

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً

In which they will not hear any lewd speech

La tasmaAAu feeha laghiyatan

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ

In it is a flowing spring

Feeha AAaynun jariyatun

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ

In which are high thrones

Feeha sururun marfooAAatun

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ

And chosen goblets

Waakwabun mawdooAAatun

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ

And arranged carpets

Wanamariqu masfoofatun

وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

And linen spread out

Wazarabiyyu mabthoothatun

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ

So do they not see the camel – how it has been created

Afala yanthuroona ila al-ibili kayfa khuliqat

وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

And the heaven - how it has been raised

Wa-ila alssama-i kayfa rufiAAat

وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ

And the mountains - how they have been established

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

Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.

Fathakkir innama anta muthakkirun

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

You are not at all a guardian over them

Lasta AAalayhim bimusaytirin

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ

Except whoever turns away and disbelieves

Illa man tawalla wakafara

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ

So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment

FayuAAaththibuhu Allahu alAAathaba al-akbara

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ

Indeed only towards Us is their retur

Inna ilayna iyabahum

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم

Then indeed only upon Us is their reckoning

Thumma inna AAalayna hisabahum

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