هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْغَـٰشِيَةِ
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]?
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْغَـٰشِيَةِ
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]?
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَـٰشِعَةٌ
[Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled,
عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ
Working [hard] and exhausted.
تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً
They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire.
تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ ءَانِيَةٍ
They will be given drink from a boiling spring.
لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ
For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant
لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍ
Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ
[Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure.
لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ
With their effort [they are] satisfied
فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ
In an elevated garden,
لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَـٰغِيَةً
Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech.
فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ
Within it is a flowing spring.
فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ
Within it are couches raised high
وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ
And cups put in place
وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ
And cushions lined up
وَزَرَابِىُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ
And carpets spread around.
أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى ٱلْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ
Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created?
وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ
And at the sky - how it is raised?
وَإِلَى ٱلْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ
And at the mountains - how they are erected?
وَإِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ
And at the earth - how it is spread out?
فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ
So remind, [O Muḥammad]; you are only a reminder.
لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ
You are not over them a controller.
إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ
However, he who turns away and disbelieves
فَيُعَذِّبُهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَكْبَرَ
Then Allāh will punish him with the greatest punishment.
إِنَّ إِلَيْنَآ إِيَابَهُمْ
Indeed, to Us is their return.
ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم
Then indeed, upon Us is their account.
Al-Ghashiyah sets two scenes of the overwhelming Day — faces humbled, laboring, scorched; and faces joyful, pleased with their striving, in an elevated garden. Then four questions to ground the heedless: do they not look at the camel, how it was created; the sky, raised; the mountains, erected; the earth, spread out?
Al-Ghashiyah (الغاشية) means "The Overwhelming" in English. It is chapter 88 of the Holy Quran.
Surah Al-Ghashiyah has 26 verses (ayat). It appears on pages 592 to 592 of the mushaf.
Surah Al-Ghashiyah is a Makki surah, revealed in Makkah before the Prophet's ﷺ migration to Madinah.
Al-Ghashiyah sets two scenes of the overwhelming Day — faces humbled, laboring, scorched; and faces joyful, pleased with their striving, in an elevated garden. Then four questions to ground the heedless: do they not look at the camel, how it was created; the sky, raised; the mountains, erected; the earth, spread out?