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Ahmed Raza Khan

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88 Al-Ghāshiyah ٱلْغَاشِيَة

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بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

88:1 هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْغَـٰشِيَةِ
88:1
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you!

88:2 وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَـٰشِعَةٌ
88:2
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
Many a face will be disgraced on that day.

88:3 عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ
88:3
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
Labouring, striving hard.

88:4 تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً
88:4
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
(Yet) Going into the blazing fire.

88:5 تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ ءَانِيَةٍ
88:5
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
Made to drink water from the boiling hot spring.

88:6 لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ
88:6
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
There is no food for them except thorns of fire.

88:7 لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍ
88:7
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
Which neither give strength nor satisfy the hunger.

88:8 وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ
88:8
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
Many a face will be in serenity on that day.

88:9 لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ
88:9
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
Rejoicing over their efforts.

88:10 فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ
88:10
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
In a high Garden.

88:11 لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَـٰغِيَةً
88:11
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
In which they will not hear any lewd speech.

88:12 فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ
88:12
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
In it is a flowing spring.

88:13 فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ
88:13
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
In which are high thrones.

88:14 وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ
88:14
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
And chosen goblets.

88:15 وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ
88:15
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
And arranged carpets.

88:16 وَزَرَابِىُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ
88:16
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
And linen spread out.

88:17 أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى ٱلْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ
88:17
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
So do they not see the camel – how it has been created?

88:18 وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ
88:18
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
And the heaven – how it has been raised?

88:19 وَإِلَى ٱلْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ
88:19
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
And the mountains – how they have been established?

88:20 وَإِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ
88:20
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
And the earth – how it has been spread out?

88:21 فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ
88:21
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.)

88:22 لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ
88:22
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
You are not at all a guardian over them.

88:23 إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ
88:23
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
Except whoever turns away and disbelieves –

88:24 فَيُعَذِّبُهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَكْبَرَ
88:24
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment.

88:25 إِنَّ إِلَيْنَآ إِيَابَهُمْ
88:25
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
Indeed only towards Us is their return

88:26 ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم
88:26
Ahmed Raza Khan (English) :
Then indeed only upon Us is their reckoning.