88. Al-Ghaashiya

88:1

هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْغَـٰشِيَةِ ﴿١﴾

Hal atāka ḥadīthu al-ghāshiyah

Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming?

88:2

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَـٰشِعَةٌ ﴿٢﴾

Wujūhun yawmaʾidhin khāshiʿah

On that day (many) faces will be downcast,

88:3

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ ﴿٣﴾

ʿāmilatun nāṣibah

Toiling, weary,

88:4

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً ﴿٤﴾

Taṣlā nāran ḥāmiyah

Scorched by burning fire,

88:5

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ ءَانِيَةٍ ﴿٥﴾

Tusqā min ʿaynin āniyah

Drinking from a boiling spring,

88:6

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ ﴿٦﴾

Laysa lahum ṭaʿāmun illā min ḍarīʿ

No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit

88:7

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍ ﴿٧﴾

Lā yusminu walā yughnī min jūʿ

Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.

88:8

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ ﴿٨﴾

Wujūhun yawmaʾidhin nāʿimah

In that day other faces will be calm,

88:9

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ ﴿٩﴾

Lisaʿyihā rāḍiyah

Glad for their effort past,

88:10

فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ ﴿١٠﴾

Fī jannatin ʿāliyah

In a high Garden

88:11

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَـٰغِيَةً ﴿١١﴾

Lā tasmaʿu fīhā lāghiyah

Where they hear no idle speech,

88:12

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ ﴿١٢﴾

Fīhā ʿaynun jāriyah

Wherein is a gushing spring,

88:13

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ ﴿١٣﴾

Fīhā sururun marfūʿah

Wherein are couches raised

88:14

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ ﴿١٤﴾

Waʾakwābun mawḍūʿah

And goblets set at hand

88:15

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ ﴿١٥﴾

Wanamāriqu maṣfūfah

And cushions ranged

88:16

وَزَرَابِىُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ ﴿١٦﴾

Wazarābiyyu mabthūthah

And silken carpets spread.

88:17

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى ٱلْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ ﴿١٧﴾

Afalā yanẓurūna ilā al-ibili kayfa khuliqat

Will they not regard the camels, how they are created?

88:18

وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ ﴿١٨﴾

Waʾilā as-samāʾi kayfa rufiʿat

And the heaven, how it is raised?

88:19

وَإِلَى ٱلْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ ﴿١٩﴾

Waʾilā al-jibāli kayfa nuṣibat

And the hills, how they are set up?

88:20

وَإِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ ﴿٢٠﴾

Waʾilā al-arḍi kayfa suṭiḥat

And the earth, how it is spread?

88:21

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ ﴿٢١﴾

Fadhakkir innamā anta mudhakkir

Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,

88:22

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ ﴿٢٢﴾

Lasta ʿalayhim bimuṣayṭir

Thou art not at all a warder over them.

88:23

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ ﴿٢٣﴾

Illā man tawallā wakafar

But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,

88:24

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَكْبَرَ ﴿٢٤﴾

Fayuʿadhdhibuhu Allāhu al-ʿadhāba al-akbar

Allah will punish him with direst punishment.

88:25

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَآ إِيَابَهُمْ ﴿٢٥﴾

Inna ilaynā iyābahum

Lo! unto Us is their return

88:26

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم ﴿٢٦﴾

Thumma inna ʿalaynā ḥisābahum

And Ours their reckoning.