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بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیْمِ
Allah's Name to commence with, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
In the name of Allah, the Infinitely Gracious, the Most Merciful.
هَلْ اَتٰىكَ حَدِیْثُ الْغَاشِیَةِﭤ(1)
Certainly, the news has come to you of that calamity which will engulf (everything).
Indeed, news of the overshadowing calamity has come to you.
وُجُوْهٌ یَّوْمَىٕذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ(2)
Many faces (i.e. the faces of all the disbelievers) will be disgraced on that Day.
Many faces will be humbled on that Day.
عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ(3)
Labouring (uselessly by worshipping false deities), striving hard.
Labouring, weary.
تَصْلٰى نَارًا حَامِیَةً(4)
(Yet they are) going into the Blazing Fire.
They will enter a raging fire.
تُسْقٰى مِنْ عَیْنٍ اٰنِیَةٍﭤ(5)
Made to drink water from the boiling hot spring.
They will be made to drink from a boiling spring.
لَیْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ اِلَّا مِنْ ضَرِیْعٍ(6)
There is no food for them except the thorns of fire.
There is no food for them except a thorny plant
لَّا یُسْمِنُ وَ لَا یُغْنِیْ مِنْ جُوْ عٍﭤ(7)
Which neither fatten nor satisfy hunger.
which will neither nourish nor give relief from hunger.
وُجُوْهٌ یَّوْمَىٕذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ(8)
Many faces (i.e. of the believers) will be in serenity on that Day.
Many faces will be blissful on that Day.
لِّسَعْیِهَا رَاضِیَةٌ(9)
Rejoicing over their efforts.
Pleased with their endeavours.
فِیْ جَنَّةٍ عَالِیَةٍ(10)
In a lofty Garden.
In a lofty Garden.
لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِیْهَا لَاغِیَةًﭤ(11)
In which they will not hear any vulgar speech.
They will not hear any indecent speech therein.
فِیْهَا عَیْنٌ جَارِیَةٌﭥ(12)
Therein is a flowing spring.
Flowing springs therein.