Surah Al-Ghaashiya (The Overwhelming)

26 Verse(s) • Surah number 88 • Meccan

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ


1. Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]?

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ


2. [Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled,

عَامِلَةٌ نَاصِبَةٌ


3. Working [hard] and exhausted.

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً


4. They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire.

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ


5. They will be given drink from a boiling spring.

لَيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِنْ ضَرِيعٍ


6. For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant

لَا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِنْ جُوعٍ


7. Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَاعِمَةٌ


8. [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure.

لِسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ


9. With their effort [they are] satisfied

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ


10. In an elevated garden,