Surah Al-Ghāshiyah (The Overwhelming) in English

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. هل أتاك حديث الغاشية

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   Did you receive the account of the Enveloper?

   hal ʾatāka ḥadīthu l-ghāshiyati

2. وجوه يومئذ خاشعة

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   Some faces on that day will be humbled,

   wujūhun yawmaʾidhin khāshiʿatun

3. عاملة ناصبة

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   wrought-up and weary:

   ʿāmilatun nāṣibatun

4. تصلى نارا حامية

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   they will enter a scorching fire

   taṣlā nāran ḥāmiyatan

5. تسقى من عين آنية

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   and made to drink from a boiling spring.

   tusqā min ʿaynin ʾāniyatin

6. ليس لهم طعام إلا من ضريع

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   They will have no food except cactus,

   laysa lahum ṭaʿāmun ʾillā min ḍarīʿin

7. لا يسمن ولا يغني من جوع

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   neither nourishing, nor of avail against hunger.

   lā yusminu wa-lā yughnī min jūʿin

8. وجوه يومئذ ناعمة

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   Some faces on that day will be joyous,

   wujūhun yawmaʾidhin nāʿimatun

9. لسعيها راضية

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   pleased with their endeavour,

   li-saʿyihā rāḍiyatun

10. في جنة عالية

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    in a lofty garden,

    fī jannatin ʿāliyatin

11. لا تسمع فيها لاغية

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    where they will not hear any vain talk.

    lā tasmaʿu fīhā lāghiyatan

12. فيها عين جارية

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    In it is a flowing spring

    fīhā ʿaynun jāriyatun

13. فيها سرر مرفوعة

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    and raised couches,

    fīhā sururun marfūʿatun

14. وأكواب موضوعة

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    with goblets set,

    wa-ʾakwābun mawḍūʿatun

15. ونمارق مصفوفة

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    and cushions laid out in an array,

    wa-namāriqu maṣfūfatun

16. وزرابي مبثوثة

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    and carpets spread out.

    wa-zarābiyyu mabthūthatun

17. أفلا ينظرون إلى الإبل كيف خلقت

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    Do they not observe the camel, [to see] how it has been created?

    ʾa-fa-lā yanẓurūna ʾilā l-ʾibili kayfa khuliqat

18. وإلى السماء كيف رفعت

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    and the sky, how it has been raised?

    wa-ʾilā s-samāʾi kayfa rufiʿat

19. وإلى الجبال كيف نصبت

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    and the mountains, how they have been set?

    wa-ʾilā l-jibāli kayfa nuṣibat

20. وإلى الأرض كيف سطحت

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    and the earth, how it has been surfaced?

    wa-ʾilā l-ʾarḍi kayfa suṭiḥat

21. فذكر إنما أنت مذكر

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    So admonish—for you are only an admonisher,

    fa-dhakkir ʾinnamā ʾanta mudhakkirun

22. لست عليهم بمصيطر

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    and not a taskmaster over them—

    lasta ʿalayhim bi-muṣayṭirin

23. إلا من تولى وكفر

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    except him who turns back and disbelieves.

    ʾillā man tawallā wa-kafara

24. فيعذبه الله العذاب الأكبر

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    Him Allah will punish with the greatest punishment.

    fa-yuʿadhdhibuhu llāhu l-ʿadhāba l-ʾakbara

25. إن إلينا إيابهم

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    Indeed to Us will be their return.

    ʾinna ʾilaynā ʾiyābahum

26. ثم إن علينا حسابهم

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    Then, indeed, their reckoning will lie with Us.

    thumma ʾinna ʿalaynā ḥisābahum