The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall — Safi Kaskas Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The Overwhelming Event

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ

Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event?

Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ

Some faces, that Day, will be humbled,

Wujoohun yawma-ithin khashiAAatun

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ

working hard and exhausted.

AAamilatun nasibatun

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً

They will kindle an intensely hot Fire

Tasla naran hamiyatan

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ

and will be given drinks from a boiling spring.

Tusqa min AAaynin aniyatin

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ

They will have no food except from a thorny plant,

Laysa lahum taAAamun illa min dareeAAin

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ

that neither nourishes nor satisfies hunger.

La yusminu wala yughnee min jooAAin

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ

Other faces, that day, will be peaceful.

Wujoohun yawma-ithin naAAimatun

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ

Well pleased with their endeavor,

LisaAAyiha radiyatun

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ

in an elevated Garden,

Fee jannatin AAaliyatin

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً

where they will hear no idle talk.

La tasmaAAu feeha laghiyatan

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ

A flowing spring runs through it.

Feeha AAaynun jariyatun

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ

Raised couches are placed there,

Feeha sururun marfooAAatun

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ

cups put in place

Waakwabun mawdooAAatun

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ

cushions lined up

Wanamariqu masfoofatun

وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

and carpets spread around.

Wazarabiyyu mabthoothatun

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ

Don't they look at how the camels are created,

Afala yanthuroona ila al-ibili kayfa khuliqat

وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

at how the sky is raised

Wa-ila alssama-i kayfa rufiAAat

وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ

at how the mountains are erected

Wa-ila aljibali kayfa nusibat

وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ

and at how the earth is spread out?

Wa-ila al-ardi kayfa sutihat

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ

So remind them, for you are but a reminder.

Fathakkir innama anta muthakkirun

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

You are not in control of them.

Lasta AAalayhim bimusaytirin

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ

But whoever turns away and rejects the truth,

Illa man tawalla wakafara

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ

God will inflict him with the greatest punishment.

FayuAAaththibuhu Allahu alAAathaba al-akbara

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ

To Us is their return.

Inna ilayna iyabahum

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم

Then it is for Us to call them to account.

Thumma inna AAalayna hisabahum

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