IslamAwakened.com Qur'an Tafsir of Surah al-Ghashiyah - The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall as rendered by Torres Al Haneef (partial translation)
88:1
Has the story of the Overwhelming reached you
88:2
On that day (many) faces will look down (in humility
88:3
"hard-working, worn out,"
88:4
"scorched by burning fire,"
88:5
"drinking from a spring of boiling water,"
88:6
no food for them except bitter cactu
88:7
which will neither nourish them nor satisfy their hunger
88:8
"On that day (other) faces will be joyful,"
88:9
"pleased with their past efforts,"
88:10
in a high Garde
88:11
where they hear no trivial talk
88:12
"In it there is a flowing fountain,"
88:13
"and couches raised high,"
88:14
"and goblets nearby,"
88:15
and cushions arrange
88:16
and rich carpets spread around them
88:17
Do they not observe how the camel was created
88:18
"-- and the sky, how it is raised high,"
88:19
"and the mountains, how firmly they are fixed,"
88:20
"and the earth, how it is spread out?"
88:21
"Remind them (Mu?ammad), because you were (only) sent to remind;"
88:22
you are not in charge of them
88:23
"But whoever turns away and disbelieves,"
88:24
Allah will punish him with a mighty punishment
88:25
"Truly, they will return to Us,"
88:26
and it is for Us to call them to account for what they have doen
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