Al-Ghâshiyah

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ ١

Has the news of the Calamity overwhelming (everything) reached you?

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ ٢

Many faces on that Day will be humiliated and degraded,

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ ٣

(Forgetting Allah,) toiling (for worldly gains), sustaining (strenuous) rigours (for a fleeting luxury),

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً ٤

Will plunge into the Blazing Fire.

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ ٥

(They will be) offered to drink (water) from a boiling spring.

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ ٦

They will have no food except thorny and dry venomous herbage.

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ ٧

(This food) will neither nourish nor gratify hunger.

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ ٨

(On the contrary) that Day a number of faces will be (pleasing to the eye,) glowing with joy and freshness,

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ ٩

Delighted and rejoicing over their (righteous) travail,

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ ١٠

(Abiding) in a magnificent Paradise,

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً ١١

Where they will not hear anything absurd (as the disbelievers used to say to them in the world).

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ ١٢

In it there will be flowing springs,

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ ١٣

And raised-up couches (laid),

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ ١٤

And goblets (decently) set in place,

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ ١٥

And silken cushions orderly lined up,

وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ ١٦

And soft and refined carpets and rugs (richly) spread.

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ ١٧

(The disbelievers wonder how all that would be arranged in Paradise. So) do they not see how the camel has been created (in an unusual form)?

وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ ١٨

And (do they not observe) how the heaven is raised so high (with its vast expanse)?

وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ ١٩

And (do they not see) how the mountains have been created (raised out of the earth)?

وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ ٢٠

(Nor do they consider) how the earth has been spread out (besides its round shape)?