The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall — Mustafa Khattab 2018 Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The Overwhelming Event

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ

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Has the news of the Overwhelming Event reached you ˹O Prophet˺?

Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ

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On that Day ˹some˺ faces will be downcast,

Wujoohun yawma-ithin khashiAAatun

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ

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˹totally˺ overburdened, exhausted,

AAamilatun nasibatun

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً

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burning in a scorching Fire,

Tasla naran hamiyatan

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ

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left to drink from a scalding spring.

Tusqa min AAaynin aniyatin

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ

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They will have no food except a foul, thorny shrub,

Laysa lahum taAAamun illa min dareeAAin

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ

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neither nourishing nor satisfying hunger.

La yusminu wala yughnee min jooAAin

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ

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On that Day ˹other˺ faces will be glowing with bliss,

Wujoohun yawma-ithin naAAimatun

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ

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˹fully˺ pleased with their striving,

LisaAAyiha radiyatun

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ

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in an elevated Garden,

Fee jannatin AAaliyatin

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً

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where no idle talk will be heard.

La tasmaAAu feeha laghiyatan

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ

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In it will be a running spring,

Feeha AAaynun jariyatun

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ

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along with thrones raised high,

Feeha sururun marfooAAatun

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ

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and cups set at hand,

Waakwabun mawdooAAatun

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ

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and ˹fine˺ cushions lined up,

Wanamariqu masfoofatun

وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

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and ˹splendid˺ carpets spread out.

Wazarabiyyu mabthoothatun

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ

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Do they not ever reflect on camels—how they were ˹masterfully˺ created;

Afala yanthuroona ila al-ibili kayfa khuliqat

وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

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and the sky—how it was raised ˹high˺;

Wa-ila alssama-i kayfa rufiAAat

وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ

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and the mountains—how they were firmly set up;

Wa-ila aljibali kayfa nusibat

وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ

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and the earth—how it was levelled out?

Wa-ila al-ardi kayfa sutihat

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ

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So, ˹continue to˺ remind ˹all, O Prophet˺, for your duty is only to remind.

Fathakkir innama anta muthakkirun

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

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You are not ˹there˺ to compel them ˹to believe˺.

Lasta AAalayhim bimusaytirin

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ

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But whoever turns away, persisting in disbelief,

Illa man tawalla wakafara

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ

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then Allah will inflict upon them the major punishment.

FayuAAaththibuhu Allahu alAAathaba al-akbara

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ

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Surely to Us is their return,

Inna ilayna iyabahum

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم

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then surely with Us is their reckoning.

Thumma inna AAalayna hisabahum

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