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English - Chapter 88 - Al-Ghashiyah
Translation by Aisha Bewley — Permalink
Verse 1 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:1
Has news of the Overwhelmer reached you
Verse 2 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:2
Some faces on that Day will be downcast
Verse 3 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:3
labouring, toiling endlessly
Verse 4 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:4
roasting in a red-hot Fire
Verse 5 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:5
drinking from a boiling spring
Verse 6 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:6
They have no food but a bitter thorny bush
Verse 7 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:7
which neither nourishes nor satisfies
Verse 8 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:8
Some faces on that Day will be radiant
Verse 9 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:9
well-pleased with their efforts
Verse 10 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:10
in an elevated Garden
Verse 11 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:11
where no prattle is ever heard
Verse 12 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:12
In it is a gushing spring
Verse 13 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:13
and raised-up couches
Verse 14 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:14
and set-out goblets
Verse 15 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:15
and lined-up cushions
Verse 16 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:16
and spread-out rugs
Verse 17 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:17
Have they not looked at the camel — how it was created
Verse 18 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:18
and at the sky — how it was raised up
Verse 19 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:19
and at the mountains — how they were embedded
Verse 20 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:20
and at the earth — how it was smoothed out
Verse 21 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:21
So remind them! You are only a reminder
Verse 22 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:22
You are not in control of them
Verse 23 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:23
But as for anyone who turns away and is kafir
Verse 24 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:24
Allah will punish him with the Greatest Punishment
Verse 25 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:25
Certainly it is to Us they will return
Verse 26 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:26
Then their Reckoning is Our concern