The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall — Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The Overwhelming Event

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming

Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

On that day (many) faces will be downcast

Wujoohun yawma-ithin khashiAAatun

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

AAamilatun nasibatun

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً

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Scorched by burning fire

Tasla naran hamiyatan

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

Drinking from a boiling spring

Tusqa min AAaynin aniyatin

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

No food for them save bitter thorn-frui

Laysa lahum taAAamun illa min dareeAAin

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger

La yusminu wala yughnee min jooAAin

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

In that day other faces will be calm

Wujoohun yawma-ithin naAAimatun

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

Glad for their effort past

LisaAAyiha radiyatun

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ

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In a high Garde

Fee jannatin AAaliyatin

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً

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Where they hear no idle speech

La tasmaAAu feeha laghiyatan

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ

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Wherein is a gushing spring

Feeha AAaynun jariyatun

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ

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Wherein are couches raise

Feeha sururun marfooAAatun

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ

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And goblets set at han

Waakwabun mawdooAAatun

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ

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And cushions range

Wanamariqu masfoofatun

وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

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And silken carpets spread

Wazarabiyyu mabthoothatun

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ

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Will they not regard the camels, how they are created

Afala yanthuroona ila al-ibili kayfa khuliqat

وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

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And the heaven, how it is raised

Wa-ila alssama-i kayfa rufiAAat

وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ

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And the hills, how they are set up

Wa-ila aljibali kayfa nusibat

وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ

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And the earth, how it is spread

Wa-ila al-ardi kayfa sutihat

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer

Fathakkir innama anta muthakkirun

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

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Thou art not at all a warder over them

Lasta AAalayhim bimusaytirin

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ

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But whoso is averse and disbelieveth

Illa man tawalla wakafara

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ

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Allah will punish him with direst punishment

FayuAAaththibuhu Allahu alAAathaba al-akbara

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ

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Lo! unto Us is their retur

Inna ilayna iyabahum

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم

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And Ours their reckoning

Thumma inna AAalayna hisabahum

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