Showing posts with label 26 verses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 26 verses. Show all posts

Friday, March 26, 2010

88. The Overwhelming Event (Al-Gáshiya)



Revealed before the Hijrah. This chapter has 26 verses.
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
1. Has the story reached thee of the Overwhelming (Event)?
2. Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated,
3. Laboring (hard), weary,-
4. The while they enter the Blazing Fire,-
5. The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring,
6. No food will there be for them but a bitter Dhariì
7. Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger.
8. (Other) faces that Day will be joyful,
9. Pleased with their striving,-
10. In a Garden on high,
11. Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity:
12. Therein will be a bubbling spring: