| | Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar rendition of Surah The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall(al-Ghashiyah)
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| 88:1 | | Approached thee the discourse of the Overwhelming Event? |
| 88:2 | | Faces on that Day will be ones that are humbled, |
| 88:3 | | ones that work and ones that are fatigued, |
| 88:4 | | roasting in a hot fire. |
| 88:5 | | They will be given to drink from boiling receptacles. |
| 88:6 | | Is it not that there is no food for them but a thorny fruit. |
| 88:7 | | It will not fatten nor will it avail hunger. |
| 88:8 | | Faces on that Day will be ones that are pleasant, |
| 88:9 | | ones who are well-pleased by their endeavoring |
| 88:10 | | in a magnificent Garden. |
| 88:11 | | They will hear no babble in it. |
| 88:12 | | In it is a running spring. |
| 88:13 | | In it are exalted couches |
| 88:14 | | and goblets that are set down |
| 88:15 | | and cushions arrayed |
| 88:16 | | and rugs, ones that are dispersed. |
| 88:17 | | Will they not, then, look on the camel, how it was created? |
| 88:18 | | And of the heaven, how it was lifted up? |
| 88:19 | | And the mountains, how they were hoisted up? |
| 88:20 | | And the earth, how it was stretched out? |
| 88:21 | | Then, remind for thou art only one who reminds. |
| 88:22 | | Thou art not over them one who is a register of their deeds. |
| 88:23 | | But whoever turned away and is one who is ungrateful, |
| 88:24 | | God will punish him with the greater punishment. |
| 88:25 | | Truly, to Us is their reversion. |
| 88:26 | | Again, truly, on Us is their reckoning. |
