| | Ahmed Hulusi rendition of Surah The Overwhelming, The Overwhelming Calamity, The Pall(al-Ghashiyah)
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| 88:1 | | Did the news reach you of the Ghashiya (the overwhelming event that wraps and covers people – Doomsday)? |
| 88:2 | | (Some) faces that day will look down in shame! |
| 88:3 | | Having worked hard (complying with customs, traditions and customary practices of worship) and exhausted for nothing! |
| 88:4 | | They (those faces) will be subject to an intense fire! |
| 88:5 | | They will be made to drink from a boiling spring! |
| 88:6 | | And there will be no food for them, except for a poisonous thorny plant, |
| 88:7 | | Which will neither nourish them nor appease their hunger. |
| 88:8 | | And many faces that day will show signs of pleasure. |
| 88:9 | | They will be pleased with the results of their (duly spent) efforts! |
| 88:10 | | In an elevated Paradise! |
| 88:11 | | They will hear no baseless speech therein. |
| 88:12 | | Within a (continually) flowing spring (of knowledge and power), |
| 88:13 | | Couches raised high, |
| 88:14 | | And cups put in place, |
| 88:15 | | And cushions lined up (behind them), |
| 88:16 | | And carpets spread (beneath them), |
| 88:17 | | Do they not look at the camels (rain clouds), how they are created? |
| 88:18 | | And (do they not look at) the sky, how it has been raised (how space has been formed)! |
| 88:19 | | And (do they not look at) the mountains, how they have been set! |
| 88:20 | | And (do they not look at) the earth, how it has been furnished! |
| 88:21 | | So remind! For you are a reminder (you have been disclosed to remind them of their essential reality)! |
| 88:22 | | You are not a controller and imposer over them! |
| 88:23 | | But whoever turns away and covers (denies and refuses to see the reality), |
| 88:24 | | Allah will subject him to the greatest suffering! |
| 88:25 | | Indeed, to Us is their return, |
| 88:26 | | And it is up to Us to make them live the consequences of their deeds! |
