Surah al-Ghashiyah, Chapter 88
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
Verses 1 – 26
هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ {1}
1. Has the news overwhelming (of the 12th Divine Light) in retaliation come to you?
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ {2}
2. When some faces will be sad.
عَامِلَةٌ نَاصِبَةٌ {3}
3. Being tired of having undergone adversities.
تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً {4}
4. Shall enter into the flaming fire.
تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ {5}
5. And they shall be given boiling liquid of h ot spring to drink.1
لَيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِنْ ضَرِيعٍ {6}
6. Their food shall be nothing but throny bitter and ill-smelling.
لَا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِنْ جُوعٍ {7}
7. Which shall neither fatten them nor shall render them independent of hunger.
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَاعِمَةٌ {8}
8. Some faces on that day shall be cheerful
لِسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ {9}
9. due to appreciation of their deeds.
فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ {10}
10. In exalted paradises.
لَا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً {11}
11. Where shal tye not hear anything non-sensical.
فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ {12}
12. Wherein shall be flowing streams.
فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَرْفُوعَةٌ {13}
13. Where shall be elevated bedstead.
وَأَكْوَابٌ مَوْضُوعَةٌ {14}
14. And selected cups.
وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ {15}
15. And arrayed pillows.
وَزَرَابِيُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ {16}
16. An (unparallel) scattered thrones.
أَفَلَا يَنْظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ {17}
17. Do you not look at the camel in how it has been created?2
وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ {18}
18. And at the skies, how high they have been raised?
وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ {19}
19. And at mountains in howthey have been fixed?
وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ {20}
20. And ow the earth has been spread?
فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنْتَ مُذَكِّرٌ {21}
21. Go on admonishing as you are merely an admonitor.
لَسْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ بِمُصَيْطِرٍ {22}
22. You are not a guard over them.3
إِلَّا مَنْ تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ {23}
23. Except one who turns away and becomes an apostate.
فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ {24}
24. Whom shall God punish intensely.
إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ {25}
25. For verily is their reversion unto Us.4
ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُمْ {26}
26. And to Us is their rendering of accounts (of their deeds).
Moral
Just as a camel, on Earth, is subservient to man on simple signs, so shall be bounties in paradise be available, at simple desire.
- 1. These will be Muslims who,despite having said prayers and observed fast but due to enmity of Divine Lights, their acts will be wasted, shall suffer in hell.
- 2. Tall tollift heavy loads, sit and rise, ship of desert, controlled by a boy, self-supporting on thorns and without water for a few days.
- 3. So parents, after continual admonishing sons and daughters need not regret if any deviations and daughters need not regret, if any deviation.
- 4. Divine Lights on behalf of God Almighty.