Chapter 88, Al-Ghashiyah [ The Overwhelming ]
- Seeking refuge with Allah from the banished Satan.I begin in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Merciful.
- 1. Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)?
- 2. Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated,
- 3. Labouring (hard), weary,-
- 4. The while they enter the Blazing Fire,-
- 5. The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring,
- 6. No food will there be for them but a bitter Dhari'
- 7. Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger.
- 8. (Other) faces that Day will be joyful,
- 9. Pleased with their striving,-
- 10. In a Garden on high,
- 11. Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity:
- 12. Therein will be a bubbling spring:
- 13. Therein will be Thrones (of dignity), raised on high,
- 14. Goblets placed (ready),
- 15. And cushions set in rows,
- 16. And rich carpets (all) spread out.
- 17. Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made?-
- 18. And at the Sky, how it is raised high?-
- 19. And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?-
- 20. And at the Earth, how it is spread out?
- 21. Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish.
- 22. Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs.
- 23. But if any turn away and reject Allah,-
- 24. Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment,
- 25. For to Us will be their return;
- 26. Then it will be for Us to call them to account.