88 Al-Ghashiyah | The Overwhelming

  • 88:1

    Has the news come to you of the Overwhelming?

  • 88:2

    Faces on that day will be desolate.

  • 88:3

    Laboring and weary.

  • 88:4

    They will enter a blazing fire.

  • 88:5

    Be given to drink from a boiling spring.

  • 88:6

    They will have no food except from a thorny plant.

  • 88:7

    It does not nourish nor avail against hunger.

  • 88:8

    Faces on that day are joyful.

  • 88:9

    For their pursuit they are content.

  • 88:10

    In a high paradise.

  • 88:11

    You will not hear in it any nonsense.

  • 88:12

    In it is a running spring.

  • 88:13

    In it are raised beds.

  • 88:14

    Cups that are set.

  • 88:15

    Cushions arranged in rows.

  • 88:16

    Rich carpets spread out.

  • 88:17

    Will they not look at the camels/clouds, how are they created?

  • 88:18

    To the sky, how is it raised?

  • 88:19

    To the mountains, how was it set?

  • 88:20

    To the land, how was it flattened?

  • 88:21

    So remind, for you are but a reminder.

  • 88:22

    You have no power over them.

  • 88:23

    Except for he who turns away and rejects.

  • 88:24

    Then God will punish him with the great retribution.

  • 88:25

    Indeed, to Us is their return.

  • 88:26

    Then to Us is their judgment.

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