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English - Chapter 88 - Al-Ghashiyah
Translation by A. J. Arberry — Permalink
Verse 1 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:1
Hast thou received the story of the Enveloper
Verse 2 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:2
Faces on that day humbled
Verse 3 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:3
labouring, toilworn
Verse 4 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:4
roasting at a scorching fire
Verse 5 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:5
watered at a boiling fountain
Verse 6 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:6
no food for them but cactus thorn
Verse 7 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:7
unfattening, unappeasing hunger
Verse 8 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:8
Faces on that day jocund
Verse 9 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:9
with their striving well-pleased
Verse 10 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:10
in a sublime Garden
Verse 11 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:11
hearing there no babble
Verse 12 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:12
therein a running fountain
Verse 13 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:13
therein uplifted couches
Verse 14 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:14
and goblets set forth
Verse 15 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:15
and cushions arrayed
Verse 16 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:16
and carpets outspread
Verse 17 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:17
What, do they not consider how the camel was created
Verse 18 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:18
how heaven was lifted up
Verse 19 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:19
how the mountains were hoisted
Verse 20 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:20
how the earth was outstretched
Verse 21 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:21
Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder
Verse 22 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:22
thou art not charged to oversee them
Verse 23 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:23
But he who turns his back, and disbelieves
Verse 24 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:24
God shall chastise him with the greatest chastisement
Verse 25 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:25
Truly, to Us is their return
Verse 26 — Surah Al-Ghashiyah 88:26
then upon Us shall rest their reckoning