Surah 88 · Meccan

Surah Al-Ghaashiya

The Overwhelming · 26 ayahs · translation by Pickthall

سُورَةُ الغَاشِيَةِ

Recited by Mishary Rashid Alafasy

Al-Ghaashiya · 26 ayahs

88:1

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْغَٰشِيَةِ

Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming?

88:2

وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَٰشِعَةٌ

On that day (many) faces will be downcast,

88:3

عَامِلَةٌۭ نَّاصِبَةٌۭ

Toiling, weary,

88:4

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةًۭ

Scorched by burning fire,

88:5

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ ءَانِيَةٍۢ

Drinking from a boiling spring,

88:6

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍۢ

No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit

88:7

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍۢ

Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.

88:8

وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ نَّاعِمَةٌۭ

In that day other faces will be calm,

88:9

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌۭ

Glad for their effort past,

88:10

فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍۢ

In a high Garden

88:11

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَٰغِيَةًۭ

Where they hear no idle speech,

88:12

فِيهَا عَيْنٌۭ جَارِيَةٌۭ

Wherein is a gushing spring,

88:13

فِيهَا سُرُرٌۭ مَّرْفُوعَةٌۭ

Wherein are couches raised

88:14

وَأَكْوَابٌۭ مَّوْضُوعَةٌۭ

And goblets set at hand

88:15

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌۭ

And cushions ranged

88:16

وَزَرَابِىُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

And silken carpets spread.

88:17

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى ٱلْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ

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

88:18

وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

And the heaven, how it is raised?

88:19

وَإِلَى ٱلْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ

And the hills, how they are set up?

88:20

وَإِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ

And the earth, how it is spread?

88:21

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌۭ

Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,

88:22

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

Thou art not at all a warder over them.

88:23

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ

But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,

88:24

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَكْبَرَ

Allah will punish him with direst punishment.

88:25

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَآ إِيَابَهُمْ

Lo! unto Us is their return

88:26

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم

And Ours their reckoning.