The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall — Shabbir Ahmed Translation – Parallel Quran

1 The Overwhelming Event

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ

Has the news of the Dominating Event reached you

Hal ataka hadeethu alghashiyati

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ

Some faces on that Day will be downcast

Wujoohun yawma-ithin khashiAAatun

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ

Laboring, exhausted. (They were in motion without action. They toiled without clear direction)

AAamilatun nasibatun

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً

As they enter a sizzling Fire

Tasla naran hamiyatan

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ

Given to drink from a spring of burning anguish

Tusqa min AAaynin aniyatin

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ

No food for them but the bitterness of dry thorns (that they scattered to hurt others during their wayward journey through life)

Laysa lahum taAAamun illa min dareeAAin

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ

Which nourishes not, nor relieves hunger

La yusminu wala yughnee min jooAAin

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ

On that Day some faces will shine with Bliss

Wujoohun yawma-ithin naAAimatun

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ

Happy with the fruit of their effort

LisaAAyiha radiyatun

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ

In a Garden exalted in honor

Fee jannatin AAaliyatin

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً

Wherein you hear not senseless speech

La tasmaAAu feeha laghiyatan

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ

Therein is an ever-flowing Spring of Grace (76:16-17)

Feeha AAaynun jariyatun

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ

Therein are thrones of honor

Feeha sururun marfooAAatun

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ

And shiny glasses set at hand

Waakwabun mawdooAAatun

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ

And cushions set in rows

Wanamariqu masfoofatun

وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

And silken carpets spread out

Wazarabiyyu mabthoothatun

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ

Will they not, then, look at: the water-laden clouds, how they are made? (15:22)

Afala yanthuroona ila al-ibili kayfa khuliqat

وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

- And at the sky, how it is raised high? (Without visible pillars (13:2))

Wa-ila alssama-i kayfa rufiAAat

وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ

- And at the mountains, how they are entrenched

Wa-ila aljibali kayfa nusibat

وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ

- And at the earth, how it is spread out? (That you do not even feel the sphere, nor feel its speedy rotations (31:10), (39:5), (79:28-30))

Wa-ila al-ardi kayfa sutihat

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ

(This is some evidence, O Messenger!) Remind them, for you are one to remind

Fathakkir innama anta muthakkirun

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

You are not a task master over them

Lasta AAalayhim bimusaytirin

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ

But whoever turns away and denies the Truth

Illa man tawalla wakafara

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ

Allah will requite him with a great requital

FayuAAaththibuhu Allahu alAAathaba al-akbara

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ

Behold, unto 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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