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The Qur'an (Pickthall) · Al-Ghaashiya

The Qur'an (Pickthall) · Meccan

88. Al-Ghaashiya

The Overwhelming · 26 verses

1 Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming

2 On that day (many) faces will be downcast

3 Toiling, weary

4 Scorched by burning fire

5 Drinking from a boiling spring

6 No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit

7 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger

8 In that day other faces will be calm

9 Glad for their effort past

10 In a high Garden

11 Where they hear no idle speech

12 Wherein is a gushing spring

13 Wherein are couches raised

14 And goblets set at hand

15 And cushions ranged

16 And silken carpets spread

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

18 And the heaven, how it is raised

19 And the hills, how they are set up

20 And the earth, how it is spread

21 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer

22 Thou art not at all a warder over them

23 But whoso is averse and disbelieveth

24 Allah will punish him with direst punishment

25 Lo! unto Us is their return

26 And Ours their reckoning