Surah Al-Ghashiyah (The Overwhelming)

Topics in Surah Al-Ghashiyah

Study guides that discuss verses of this surah, most connected first.

• The Last Day (Al-Yawm al-Akhir) (16 verses)
• Striving (Sa'y) (8 verses)
• Accountability (Hisab) (6 verses)
• Preservation (Hifz) (6 verses)
• Responsibility (Mas'uliyyah) (6 verses)
• Divinity (Uluhiyyah) (4 verses)
• Monotheism (Tawhid) (4 verses)
• Paradise (Jannah) (4 verses)
• Reverence (Khushu) (4 verses)
• Hellfire (Nar) (4 verses)
• The Face (Wajh) (3 verses)
• Glad Tidings (Bushra) (2 verses)
• Drinking (Shurb) (2 verses)
• Food (Ta'am) (2 verses)
• Animals (Hayawan) (1 verses)

Read Surah Al-Ghashiyah with English translation

1. 88:1

   بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْغَٰشِيَةِ

   Have you heard tell [Prophet] about the Overwhelming Event?

2. 88:2

   وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَٰشِعَةٌ

   On that Day, there will be downcast faces,

3. 88:3

   عَامِلَةٌۭ نَّاصِبَةٌۭ

   toiling and weary,

4. 88:4

   تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةًۭ

   as they enter the blazing Fire

5. 88:5

   تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ ءَانِيَةٍۢ

   and are forced to drink from a boiling spring,

6. 88:6

   لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍۢ

   with no food for them except bitter dry thorns

7. 88:7

   لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍۢ

   that neither nourish nor satisfy hunger.

8. 88:8

   وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ نَّاعِمَةٌۭ

   On that Day there will also be faces radiant with bliss,

9. 88:9

   لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌۭ

   well pleased with their labour,

10. 88:10

    فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍۢ

    in a lofty garden,

11. 88:11

    لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَٰغِيَةًۭ

    where they will hear no idle talk,

12. 88:12

    فِيهَا عَيْنٌۭ جَارِيَةٌۭ

    with a flowing spring,

13. 88:13

    فِيهَا سُرُرٌۭ مَّرْفُوعَةٌۭ

    raised couches,

14. 88:14

    وَأَكْوَابٌۭ مَّوْضُوعَةٌۭ

    goblets placed before them,

15. 88:15

    وَنَمَارِقُ مَصْفُوفَةٌۭ

    cushions set in rows,

16. 88:16

    وَزَرَابِىُّ مَبْثُوثَةٌ

    and carpets spread.

17. 88:17

    أَفَلَا يَنظُرُونَ إِلَى ٱلْإِبِلِ كَيْفَ خُلِقَتْ

    Do the disbelievers not see how rain clouds are formed 1

18. 88:18

    وَإِلَى ٱلسَّمَآءِ كَيْفَ رُفِعَتْ

    how the heavens are lifted,

19. 88:19

    وَإِلَى ٱلْجِبَالِ كَيْفَ نُصِبَتْ

    how the mountains are raised high,

20. 88:20

    وَإِلَى ٱلْأَرْضِ كَيْفَ سُطِحَتْ

    how the earth is spread out?

21. 88:21

    فَذَكِّرْ إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مُذَكِّرٌۭ

    So [Prophet] warn them: your only task is to give warning,

22. 88:22

    لَّسْتَ عَلَيْهِم بِمُصَيْطِرٍ

    you are not there to control them.

23. 88:23

    إِلَّا مَن تَوَلَّىٰ وَكَفَرَ

    As for those who turn away and disbelieve,

24. 88:24

    فَيُعَذِّبُهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَكْبَرَ

    God will inflict the greatest torment upon them.

25. 88:25

    إِنَّ إِلَيْنَآ إِيَابَهُمْ

    It is to Us they will return,

26. 88:26

    ثُمَّ إِنَّ عَلَيْنَا حِسَابَهُم

    and then it is for Us to call them to account.

English translation: M.A.S. Abdel Haleem.