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Surah Al-Ghashiya Translated in English

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ

Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]?

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ

[Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled,

عَامِلَةٌ نَاصِبَةٌ

Working [hard] and exhausted.

تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً

They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire.

تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ

They will be given drink from a boiling spring.

لَيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِنْ ضَرِيعٍ

For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant

لَا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِنْ جُوعٍ

Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.

وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَاعِمَةٌ

[Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure.

لِسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ

With their effort [they are] satisfied

فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ

In an elevated garden,