هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْغَٰشِيَةِ ١
1. Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]?
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سورة الغاشية
The complete Arabic text of Surah Al-Ghashiyah: its 26 verses in vowelled Uthmani script, with the English translation under each verse. Enlarge the text with A+, show the transliteration or word by word, and start the recitation: each verse lights up as it is recited.
Tajweed rules
- Hamzat al-wasl (silent)
- Silent letter
- Lam shamsiyyah (assimilated)
- Normal madd (2 counts)
- Permissible madd (2, 4 or 6 counts)
- Obligatory madd (4 or 5 counts)
- Necessary madd (6 counts)
- Ghunnah (nasalisation, 2 counts)
- Qalqalah (echo)
- Ikhfa (concealment)
- Ikhfa shafawi (meem)
- Idgham with ghunnah
- Idgham without ghunnah
- Idgham shafawi (meem)
- Idgham mutajanisayn
- Idgham mutaqaribayn
- Iqlab (noon becomes meem)
بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَٰشِعَةٌ ٢
2. [Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled,
عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ ٣
3. Working [hard] and exhausted.1910
Notes
[1910] Another accepted meaning is "They were working hard and exhausted," i.e., doing deeds during worldly life which did not benefit them since they were not accompanied by faith or done for the acceptance of Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) .
تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً ٤
4. They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire.
تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ ءَانِيَةٍ ٥
5. They will be given drink from a boiling spring.
لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ ٦
6. For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant
لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍ ٧
7. Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ ٨
8. [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure.
لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ ٩
9. With their effort [they are] satisfied
فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ ١٠
10. In an elevated garden,
لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَٰغِيَةً ١١
11. Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech.1911
Notes
[1911] i.e., any insult, falsehood, immorality, idle or vain talk, etc.
فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ ١٢
12. Within it is a flowing spring.
فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ ١٣
13. Within it are couches raised high
وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ ١٤
14. And cups put in place
وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ ١٥
15. And cushions lined up
وَزَرَابِىُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ ١٦
16. And carpets spread around.
أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى ٱلْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ ١٧
17. Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created?
وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ ١٨
18. And at the sky - how it is raised?
وَإِلَى ٱلْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ ١٩
19. And at the mountains - how they are erected?
وَإِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ ٢٠
20. And at the earth - how it is spread out?
فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ ٢١
21. So remind, [O Muḥammad]; you are only a reminder.
لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ ٢٢
22. You are not over them a controller.
إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ ٢٣
23. However, he who turns away and disbelieves –
فَيُعَذِّبُهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَكْبَرَ ٢٤
24. Then Allāh will punish him with the greatest punishment.
إِنَّ إِلَيْنَآ إِيَابَهُمْ ٢٥
25. Indeed, to Us is their return.
ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم ٢٦
26. Then indeed, upon Us is their account.
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