The Overwhelming Event (Al-Ghashiyah)
Verses 1-26 GROUP_1572 88.1-26
1
هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event?
2
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ
On that Day, there shall be downcast faces,
3
عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ
labouring, weary,
4
تَصْلَى نَارًا حَامِيَةً
they shall enter a burning Fire
5
تُسْقَى مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ
and will be made to drink from a boiling spring,
6
لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ
they shall have no food but thorns,
7
لَا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ
which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger.
8
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ
Some faces on that Day will be radiant,
9
لِسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ
well pleased with the result of their striving,
10
فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ
in a sublime garden,
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لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً
where they will hear no idle talk,
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فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ
with a flowing spring,
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فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ
raised couches,
14
وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ
and goblets set at hand,
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وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ
cushions ranged,
16
وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ
and carpets spread out.
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أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ
Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created,
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وَإِلَى السَّمَاء كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ
and on the sky, how it is raised aloft,
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وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ
and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up,
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وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ
and on the earth, how it is spread out?
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فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ
So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort,
22
لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ
you are not their keeper.
23
إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّى وَكَفَرَ
But whoever turns back and denies the truth,
24
فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ
will be punished by God with the greatest punishment.
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إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ
Certainly, it is to Us that they will return.
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ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُمْ
Then, surely, it is for Us to call them to account.
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Commentary
(a) Man observes that a serviceable animal like the camel is obedient to him. The sky in all its majesty is well disposed towards him. The earth, without any effort on our part, is subservient to our interests. All these phenomena remind a thoughtful man of God and the Hereafter. Those who derive the nourishment of remembrance from these arrangements of the world have established their entitlement to God’s eternal bounties, while those who have remained lost in forgetfulness and neglect, have proved that they deserve to be deprived of every kind of bounty—forever. (a) Calling people to God aims at exhorting people through peaceful persuasion, to make them realize their Creator, the one and only God; to understand the purpose of their creation; the coming of the Hereafter, of their accountability to their Creator, etc. The purpose of this exhortation is to awaken souls from their slumber. It is to put a lost person on to the right path leading towards God. It is to awaken man’s insight so that he begins to see glimpses of God in the signs of the vast universe. It is to unveil the Creator in the mirror of His creation