هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْغَٰشِيَةِ ﴿١﴾
Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming?
88th surah of the Quran
The Overwhelming
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْغَٰشِيَةِ ﴿١﴾
Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming?
وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَٰشِعَةٌ ﴿٢﴾
On that day (many) faces will be downcast,
عَامِلَةٌۭ نَّاصِبَةٌۭ ﴿٣﴾
Toiling, weary,
تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةًۭ ﴿٤﴾
Scorched by burning fire,
تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ ءَانِيَةٍۢ ﴿٥﴾
Drinking from a boiling spring,
لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍۢ ﴿٦﴾
No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit
لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍۢ ﴿٧﴾
Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.
وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ نَّاعِمَةٌۭ ﴿٨﴾
In that day other faces will be calm,
لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌۭ ﴿٩﴾
Glad for their effort past,
فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍۢ ﴿١٠﴾
In a high Garden
لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَٰغِيَةًۭ ﴿١١﴾
Where they hear no idle speech,
فِيهَا عَيْنٌۭ جَارِيَةٌۭ ﴿١٢﴾
Wherein is a gushing spring,
فِيهَا سُرُرٌۭ مَّرْفُوعَةٌۭ ﴿١٣﴾
Wherein are couches raised
وَأَكْوَابٌۭ مَّوْضُوعَةٌۭ ﴿١٤﴾
And goblets set at hand
وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌۭ ﴿١٥﴾
And cushions ranged
وَزَرَابِىُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ ﴿١٦﴾
And silken carpets spread.
أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى ٱلْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ ﴿١٧﴾
Will they not regard the camels, how they are created?
وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ ﴿١٨﴾
And the heaven, how it is raised?
وَإِلَى ٱلْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ ﴿١٩﴾
And the hills, how they are set up?
وَإِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ ﴿٢٠﴾
And the earth, how it is spread?
فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌۭ ﴿٢١﴾
Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer,
لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ ﴿٢٢﴾
Thou art not at all a warder over them.
إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ ﴿٢٣﴾
But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,
فَيُعَذِّبُهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَكْبَرَ ﴿٢٤﴾
Allah will punish him with direst punishment.
إِنَّ إِلَيْنَآ إِيَابَهُمْ ﴿٢٥﴾
Lo! unto Us is their return
ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم ﴿٢٦﴾
And Ours their reckoning.
Arabic text: Uthmani script. English translation: Marmaduke Pickthall. Audio: everyayah.com.
Surah Al-Ghashiyah (الغاشية) is the 88th surah of the Quran. It has 26 verses and is found in Juz 30. It is classified as a Meccan surah, meaning it was mainly revealed before the Prophet's migration (Hijra) to Medina.
Its name, الغاشية, is commonly translated as “The Overwhelming”.
Surah Al-Ghashiyah (الغاشية) has 26 verses. It is the 88th surah of the Quran, after Surah Al-A'la and before Surah Al-Fajr, and it is found in Juz 30.
It is classified as a Meccan surah, meaning it was mainly revealed before the Hijra. In the traditional order of revelation it is number 68 out of 114. Scholars sometimes differ about the place of revelation of some verses.
الغاشية is commonly translated as “The Overwhelming”. The surahs are named after a word or a theme that appears in them, and the name is a label rather than a summary of the whole surah.
Surah Al-Ghashiyah is in Juz' 30.
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