Al-Ghashiyah
الغاشية26 āyāt · 22 tafsīrs
هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ
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1. Has the news of the day of judgment that will overwhelm people with its horrors come to you, O Messenger?!
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وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ
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2. People on the day of judgment will either be wretched or fortunate. The faces of the wretched will be humiliated and downcast.
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of the Envelop er?, the Resurrection, [so called] because it ‘envelops’ creatures with its terrors. [88:2] Some faces on that day — they [faces] are used to represent the individuals in both instances — will be humbled, abjeCt, [88:3] toiling, weary, tired and exhausted from the chains and fetters, [88:4] roasting (read tasla or tusla) in a scorching fire, [88:5] made to drink from a boiling spring, one of extremely hot temperatures. [88:6] They will have no food except cadus (dan) — a type of thorn plant which no animal grazes on because of its vileness — [88:7] neither nourishing, no…
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3. Tired and strained due to the chains that they will be dragged by and the shackles that they will be tied with.
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تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً
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4. Those faces will enter a hot fire to suffer from its heat.
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تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ
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5. They will be given to drink from a spring with extremely hot water.
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لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ
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6. They will not have any food to nourish them besides the worst and most rotten type of food from a plant that is called shibriq, which becomes poisonous when it becomes dry.
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لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِن جُوعٍ
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7. It does not nourish the one who eats it nor does it satiate his hunger.
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وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ
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8. The faces of the fortunate on that day will display luxury, delight and happiness, because of the bliss they received.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
ther nourishing, nor availing againd hunger. [88:8] Other faces on that day will be delicate, fair, [88:9] pleased by their efforts, in the [life of the] world [expended] in obedience, [pleased] in the Here¬ after upon seeing the reward thereof; [88:10] in a lofty Garden, [lofty] in a physical as well as an abStracft sense, [88:11] in which they will not hear (read Id yusmau, ‘will not be heard’, or Id tasmau, ‘they will not hear’) 1 any vanity, any inane soul, Sneaking drivel; [88:12] therein is a running spring, of water, meaning ‘Springs’; [88:13] therein are lofty couches, [lofty] i…
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9. Pleased with the righteous actions they did in the world, as they had found the reward of their actions stored up and multiplied.
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فِي جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ
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10. In a Paradise elevated in position and rank.
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لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَاغِيَةً
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11. In Paradise they will not hear any word of falsehood and futility, let alone hearing any prohibited word.
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فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ
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12. In this Paradise there are flowing springs that they will make flow and direct however they wish.
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فِيهَا سُرُرٌ مَّرْفُوعَةٌ
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13. In it are high couches.
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وَأَكْوَابٌ مَّوْضُوعَةٌ
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14. And cups laid out and ready for drinking.
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وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌ
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15. In it are cushions packed closely to one another.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
ets, vessels without handles, set, around the edges of the firings prepared for them to drink with, [88:15] an d cushions arrayed, one next to the other, against which they may lean, [88:16] and carpets, rugs of velvet-hair, spread out. [88:17] Will they, the Meccan disbelievers, not consider, by way of reflection, the camels, how they are created? [88:18] And the heaven, how it was raised? [88:19] And the mountains, how they were set? [88:20] And the earth, how it was laid out flat?, and thus infer from this the power of God, exalted be He, and His Oneness? The commencing with the [me…
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16. In it are carpets spread out here and there.
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أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى الْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ
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17. After Allah mentioned the disparity between the states of the wretched and the fortunate in the afterlife, He directed the sight of the disbelievers to what will show them the power of the Creator and the beauty of His creation, so that they can use this as evidence for faith in order to enter Paradise and become of the fortunate, by saying: Do they not look with reflection at the camels, how Allah created them and subjugated them to human beings?!
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وَإِلَى السَّمَاءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ
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18. And at the sky, how He raised it so that it became a protected ceiling above them, that does not fall on them?!
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وَإِلَى الْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ
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19. And at the mountains, how He erected them and used them to make the earth stable so that it does not shake with the people?!
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وَإِلَى الْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ
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20. And at the earth, how He spread it out, and made it suitable for people to settle on?!
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فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌ
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21. After He directed them to look at those things that show His Power, He directed His messenger, saying: So counsel, O Messenger, these people and warn them of Allah’s punishment. You are but one who reminds. You are only required to remind them. Guiding them to faith is in Allah's hands alone.
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al-Maḥallī & al-Suyūṭī · 864–911 AH / 1459–1505 CE
rs (ahl al-hay’a) have it, even if this [latter] does not contradict any of the pillars of the Law. [88:21] So remind, them of God’s graces and the proofs affirming His Oneness. For you are only an admonisher; [88:22] you are not a taskmaster over them (a variant reading [for musaytir] has musaytir, that is to say, [not one who has been] given authority over them) — this was [revealed] before the command to Strug¬ gle [againSt the disbelievers]. [88:23] But he who turns away, [he who] rejecfts faith, and disbelieves, in the Qur’an, [88:24] God will chaStise him with the greater chastise…
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22. You have not been given control over them so that you can compel them to have faith.
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of God’s graces and the proofs affirming His Oneness. For you are only an admonisher; [88:22] you are not a taskmaster over them (a variant reading [for musaytir] has musaytir, that is to say, [not one who has been] given authority over them) — this was [revealed] before the command to Strug¬ gle [againSt the disbelievers]. [88:23] But he who turns away, [he who] rejecfts faith, and disbelieves, in the Qur’an, [88:24] God will chaStise him with the greater chastisement, the chastisement of the Hereafter, the lesser chastisement being that of this world, that of being killed or taken capti…
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23. But, those of them who turn away from faith and reject Allah and His messenger.
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فَيُعَذِّبُهُ اللَّهُ الْعَذَابَ الْأَكْبَرَ
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24. Allah will punish them on the Day of Judgement with the greatest punishment by entering them into Hell to remain there forever.
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إِنَّ إِلَيْنَا إِيَابَهُمْ
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25. To Me alone is their return after their death.
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Hereafter, the lesser chastisement being that of this world, that of being killed or taken captive. [88:25] Truly to Us will be their return, their coming back after death, [88:26] then truly with Us will lie their reckoning, their requital, which We will never abandon. In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful: [89:1] By the dawn, that is to say, [by] the dawn of each day, [89:2] and [by] the ten nights, the [firSt] ten nights of Dhu 1 -Hijja, [89:3] and [by] the even, the pair, and the odd (read watr or witr, two [alternative] forms), the single, [89:4] and [by] the night in…
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26. Then it is My duty alone to call them to account for their actions. This is not for you or anyone besides you.
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