| | Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim rendition of Surah The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall(al-Ghashiyah)
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| 88:1 | | Have you been informed of the great talk apropos the overwhelming Event? |
| 88:2 | | Some faces are then incensed with humiliation |
| 88:3 | | Reflecting the heedless life they spent uselessly, unprofitably and improvidently; and now they look faint and sick with travail and fear |
| 88:4 | | They are entering into Hell, to suffer the intense heat of the blazing Fire |
| 88:5 | | Only to be given to drink from water bubbling in agitation and issuing from a boiling hot spring |
| 88:6 | | And nothing will they feed on but poisonous, noxious, foul thorny shrubs |
| 88:7 | | Which neither nourish nor pacify their hunger pains |
| 88:8 | | There will be other faces radiant with delight |
| 88:9 | | Pleased with doing their endeavour in life lifting to Allah their inward sight |
| 88:10 | | Enjoying the exalted gardens of Bliss |
| 88:11 | | No matter of little value or insignificance will they hear therein, nor will they hear ill - tongues or what is morally evil |
| 88:12 | | Therein is water streaming forth from a delightful spring |
| 88:13 | | Therein are dignified seats covered with embroidered cloth woven in gold and ornamented with brocade |
| 88:14 | | And drinking glasses set at hand |
| 88:15 | | And cushions, ranked in rows, so bedecked and ornate |
| 88:16 | | And rich carpets all round |
| 88:17 | | Do they - the pagan Arabs - not ponder how camels* were created |
| 88:18 | | How the heavens* have been distantly elevated |
| 88:19 | | How the mountains* which stabilize the earth have been firmly erected |
| 88:20 | | And how the earth has been expanded* and prepared for life thereon |
| 88:21 | | You just continue to exhort the people, for you are here to put them in mind of Alla |
| 88:22 | | And no authority have you over them |
| 88:23 | | But he whose attitude has served to disincline him from doing reverence to Allah and to turn a deaf ear to all He has ordained |
| 88:24 | | Will He requite him with a condign punishment and in Hell will he forever, be detained |
| 88:25 | | Unto Us shall be their return |
| 88:26 | | And then, their judgement will be Our concern |
