Al-Ghashiyah Verse 1 - Has the news of Gâshiyeh the terrible disaster that

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The Overwhelming

Has the news of Gâshiyeh (the terrible disaster that will envelop and surround all) come to you?

On the Day of Permission, there are faces that are disgraced,

doing tiring things.

They will be flung into a hot blazing Fire.

They will be made to drink from a boiling spring.

Their food is nothing but Dari (bitter, stinking thorny tree),

neither nourishing nor filling against hunger.

On the Day of Permission there are beautiful and bright faces,

well-pleased (with their work in the world),

in a lofty heaven (under the name “Ali”),

wherein you shall not hear vain talk.

Therein is a constantly running spring,

therein are thrones raised high,

and goblets set (before them),

and cushions set in rows,

and embellished, valuable carpets that are spread out.

Do they still not look at the camel, how it had been created

and the sky, how it had been raised,

and the mountains, how they had been placed vertically,

and the earth, how it had been surfaced (don’t they look)?

So do remind, for you are only a reminder.

You are not a compeller over them.

However, whoever turns (his back) and denies,

Then, Allah torments him with the greatest torment.

Surely to Us is their comeback.

Then surely upon Us is their reckoning.

88:1

هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ

Hal ateaka haadeesul geashiyati.

Has the news of Gâshiyeh (the terrible disaster that will envelop and surround all) come to you?

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