| | Torres Al Haneef (partial translation) rendition of Surah The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall(al-Ghashiyah) --- |
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88:1 | | Has the story of the Overwhelming reached you |
88:2 | | On that day (many) faces will look down (in humility |
88:3 | | "hard-working, worn out," |
88:4 | | "scorched by burning fire," |
88:5 | | "drinking from a spring of boiling water," |
88:6 | | no food for them except bitter cactu |
88:7 | | which will neither nourish them nor satisfy their hunger |
88:8 | | "On that day (other) faces will be joyful," |
88:9 | | "pleased with their past efforts," |
88:10 | | in a high Garde |
88:11 | | where they hear no trivial talk |
88:12 | | "In it there is a flowing fountain," |
88:13 | | "and couches raised high," |
88:14 | | "and goblets nearby," |
88:15 | | and cushions arrange |
88:16 | | and rich carpets spread around them |
88:17 | | Do they not observe how the camel was created |
88:18 | | "-- and the sky, how it is raised high," |
88:19 | | "and the mountains, how firmly they are fixed," |
88:20 | | "and the earth, how it is spread out?" |
88:21 | | "Remind them (Mu?ammad), because you were (only) sent to remind;" |
88:22 | | you are not in charge of them |
88:23 | | "But whoever turns away and disbelieves," |
88:24 | | Allah will punish him with a mighty punishment |
88:25 | | "Truly, they will return to Us," |
88:26 | | and it is for Us to call them to account for what they have doen |