| | Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri rendition of Surah The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall(al-Ghashiyah)
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| 88:1 | | Has the news of the Calamity overwhelming (everything) reached you |
| 88:2 | | Many faces on that Day will be humiliated and degraded |
| 88:3 | | (Forgetting Allah,) toiling (for worldly gains), sustaining (strenuous) rigours (for a fleeting luxury) |
| 88:4 | | Will plunge into the Blazing Fire |
| 88:5 | | (They will be) offered to drink (water) from a boiling spring |
| 88:6 | | They will have no food except thorny and dry venomous herbage |
| 88:7 | | (This food) will neither nourish nor gratify hunger |
| 88:8 | | (On the contrary) that Day a number of faces will be (pleasing to the eye,) glowing with joy and freshness |
| 88:9 | | Delighted and rejoicing over their (righteous) travail |
| 88:10 | | (Abiding) in a magnificent Paradise |
| 88:11 | | Where they will not hear anything absurd (as the disbelievers used to say to them in the world) |
| 88:12 | | In it there will be flowing springs |
| 88:13 | | And raised-up couches (laid) |
| 88:14 | | And goblets (decently) set in place |
| 88:15 | | And silken cushions orderly lined up |
| 88:16 | | And soft and refined carpets and rugs (richly) spread |
| 88:17 | | (The disbelievers wonder how all that would be arranged in Paradise. So) do they not see how the camel has been created (in an unusual form) |
| 88:18 | | And (do they not observe) how the heaven is raised so high (with its vast expanse) |
| 88:19 | | And (do they not see) how the mountains have been created (raised out of the earth) |
| 88:20 | | (Nor do they consider) how the earth has been spread out (besides its round shape) |
| 88:21 | | So, continuously admonish them, for you are but an admonisher |
| 88:22 | | You are not imposed upon them (as) an oppressor and persecutor |
| 88:23 | | But anyone who turns away and becomes a disbeliever |
| 88:24 | | Allah will torment him with the greatest punishment |
| 88:25 | | Indeed, it is to Us that they will return (in the end) |
| 88:26 | | Then, surely, it is Our concern to call them to account |
