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SURAH 88 · 26 AYAHS · MECCAN

Al-Ghaashiya

The Overwhelming

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88:1Page 592 · Juz 30

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْغَـٰشِيَةِ ۝١

Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming?

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88:2Page 592 · Juz 30

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَـٰشِعَةٌ ۝٢

On that day (many) faces will be downcast,

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88:3Page 592 · Juz 30

عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ ۝٣

Toiling, weary,

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88:4Page 592 · Juz 30

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً ۝٤

Scorched by burning fire,

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88:5Page 592 · Juz 30

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ ءَانِيَةٍ ۝٥

Drinking from a boiling spring,

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88:6Page 592 · Juz 30

لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ ۝٦

No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit

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88:7Page 592 · Juz 30

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍ ۝٧

Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.

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88:8Page 592 · Juz 30

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ ۝٨

In that day other faces will be calm,

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88:9Page 592 · Juz 30

لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ ۝٩

Glad for their effort past,

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88:10Page 592 · Juz 30

فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ ۝١٠

In a high Garden

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88:11Page 592 · Juz 30

لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَـٰغِيَةً ۝١١

Where they hear no idle speech,

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88:12Page 592 · Juz 30

فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ ۝١٢

Wherein is a gushing spring,

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88:13Page 592 · Juz 30

فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ ۝١٣

Wherein are couches raised

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88:14Page 592 · Juz 30

وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ ۝١٤

And goblets set at hand

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88:15Page 592 · Juz 30

وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ ۝١٥

And cushions ranged

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88:16Page 592 · Juz 30

وَزَرَابِىُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ ۝١٦

And silken carpets spread.

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88:17Page 592 · Juz 30

أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى ٱلْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ ۝١٧

Will they not regard the camels, how they are created?

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88:18Page 592 · Juz 30

وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ ۝١٨

And the heaven, how it is raised?

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88:19Page 592 · Juz 30

وَإِلَى ٱلْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ ۝١٩

And the hills, how they are set up?

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88:20Page 592 · Juz 30

وَإِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ ۝٢٠

And the earth, how it is spread?

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88:21Page 592 · Juz 30

فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ ۝٢١

Remind them, for thou art but an admonisher,

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88:22Page 592 · Juz 30

لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ ۝٢٢

Thou art not at all a warder over them.

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88:23Page 592 · Juz 30

إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ ۝٢٣

But whoso is averse and disbelieveth,

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88:24Page 592 · Juz 30

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَكْبَرَ ۝٢٤

Allah will punish him with direst punishment.

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88:25Page 592 · Juz 30

إِنَّ إِلَيْنَآ إِيَابَهُمْ ۝٢٥

Lo! unto Us is their return

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88:26Page 592 · Juz 30

ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم ۝٢٦

And Ours their reckoning.

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