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