الغاشية

88. Al-Ghashiyah

The Overwhelming

هَلۡأَتَىٰكَحَدِيثُٱلۡغَٰشِيَةِ١

Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]?

وُجُوهٞيَوۡمَئِذٍخَٰشِعَةٌ٢

[Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled,

عَامِلَةٞنَّاصِبَةٞ٣

Working [hard] and exhausted.

تَصۡلَىٰنَارًاحَامِيَةٗ٤

They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire.

تُسۡقَىٰمِنۡعَيۡنٍءَانِيَةٖ٥

They will be given drink from a boiling spring.

لَّيۡسَلَهُمۡطَعَامٌإِلَّامِنضَرِيعٖ٦

For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant

لَّايُسۡمِنُوَلَايُغۡنِيمِنجُوعٖ٧

Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.

وُجُوهٞيَوۡمَئِذٖنَّاعِمَةٞ٨

[Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure.

لِّسَعۡيِهَارَاضِيَةٞ٩

With their effort [they are] satisfied

فِيجَنَّةٍعَالِيَةٖ١٠

In an elevated garden,