| | Shabbir Ahmed rendition of Surah The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall(al-Ghashiyah)
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| 88:1 | | Has the news of the Dominating Event reached you |
| 88:2 | | Some faces on that Day will be downcast |
| 88:3 | | Laboring, exhausted. (They were in motion without action. They toiled without clear direction) |
| 88:4 | | As they enter a sizzling Fire |
| 88:5 | | Given to drink from a spring of burning anguish |
| 88:6 | | No food for them but the bitterness of dry thorns (that they scattered to hurt others during their wayward journey through life) |
| 88:7 | | Which nourishes not, nor relieves hunger |
| 88:8 | | On that Day some faces will shine with Bliss |
| 88:9 | | Happy with the fruit of their effort |
| 88:10 | | In a Garden exalted in honor |
| 88:11 | | Wherein you hear not senseless speech |
| 88:12 | | Therein is an ever-flowing Spring of Grace (76:16-17) |
| 88:13 | | Therein are thrones of honor |
| 88:14 | | And shiny glasses set at hand |
| 88:15 | | And cushions set in rows |
| 88:16 | | And silken carpets spread out |
| 88:17 | | Will they not, then, look at: the water-laden clouds, how they are made? (15:22) |
| 88:18 | | - And at the sky, how it is raised high? (Without visible pillars (13:2)) |
| 88:19 | | - And at the mountains, how they are entrenched |
| 88:20 | | - And at the earth, how it is spread out? (That you do not even feel the sphere, nor feel its speedy rotations (31:10), (39:5), (79:28-30)) |
| 88:21 | | (This is some evidence, O Messenger!) Remind them, for you are one to remind |
| 88:22 | | You are not a task master over them |
| 88:23 | | But whoever turns away and denies the Truth |
| 88:24 | | Allah will requite him with a great requital |
| 88:25 | | Behold, unto Us is their return |
| 88:26 | | Then it is for Us to call them to account |
