The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall — Munir Mezyed Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The Overwhelming Event

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ

Has there come to you the chronicle of the overwhelming event?

Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ

Some faces, on that day, will be downcast,

Wujoohun yawma-ithin khashiAAatun

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ

Working extremely hard and exhausted,

AAamilatun nasibatun

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً

Tasting the blazing fire,

Tasla naran hamiyatan

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ

Watered from a boiling spring,

Tusqa min AAaynin aniyatin

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ

No food for them but bitter thorny plant,

Laysa lahum taAAamun illa min dareeAAin

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ

Neither nourishes nor satisfies the hunger cravings.

La yusminu wala yughnee min jooAAin

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ

Other faces, on that day, will be graceful,

Wujoohun yawma-ithin naAAimatun

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ

Fully content with their endeavor,

LisaAAyiha radiyatun

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ

In a high garden

Fee jannatin AAaliyatin

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً

Where they will hear no evil vain talk.

La tasmaAAu feeha laghiyatan

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ

In it, there are a running fountain,

Feeha AAaynun jariyatun

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ

Uplifted couches,

Feeha sururun marfooAAatun

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ

Goblets put in their place,

Waakwabun mawdooAAatun

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ

Cushions set in rows,

Wanamariqu masfoofatun

وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

And fine carpets spread out.

Wazarabiyyu mabthoothatun

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ

Do they not contemplate how the camel was created,

Afala yanthuroona ila al-ibili kayfa khuliqat

وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

How the sky was lifted up,

Wa-ila alssama-i kayfa rufiAAat

وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ

How the mountains were firmly fixed,

Wa-ila aljibali kayfa nusibat

وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ

And how the earth was outstretched?

Wa-ila al-ardi kayfa sutihat

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ

Then remind them, (O’ Muhammad)! You are only a reminder.

Fathakkir innama anta muthakkirun

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

You have no control over them.

Lasta AAalayhim bimusaytirin

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ

Consequently, the one who takes no heed and acts impiously;

Illa man tawalla wakafara

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ

Allâh will punish him with the greatest punishment.

FayuAAaththibuhu Allahu alAAathaba al-akbara

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ

Indeed, unto Us will be their return.

Inna ilayna iyabahum

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم

Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning.

Thumma inna AAalayna hisabahum

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