Microsoft Word Al Jalalain Eng with introduction docx

(Al-Ghâshiyah)
[88:1]
Has there — [there has] indeed — come to you the tiding of the Enveloper?, the Resurrection, [so called] 
because it ‘envelops’ creatures with its terrors. 
[88:2]
Some faces on that day — they [faces] are used to represent the individuals in both instances — will be 
humbled, abject, 
[88:3]
toiling, weary, tired and exhausted from the chains and fetters, 
[88:4]
roasting (read tasl
ā
or tusl
ā
) in a scorching fire,
[88:5]
made to drink from a boiling spring, one of extremely hot temperatures. 
[88:6]
They will have no food except cactus (dar
ī
‘) — a type of thorn plant which no animal grazes on because of 
its vileness — 
[88:7]

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neither nourishing, nor availing against hunger. 
[88:8]
Other faces on that day will be delicate, fair, 
[88:9]
pleased by their efforts, in the [life of the] world [expended] in obedience, [pleased] in the Hereafter upon 
seeing the reward thereof; 
[88:10]
in a lofty Garden, [lofty] in a physical as well as an abstract sense, 
[88:11]
in which they will not hear (read l
ā
yusma‘u, ‘will not be heard’, or l
ā
tasma‘u, ‘they will not hear’) any 
vanity, any inane soul, speaking drivel; 
[88:12]
therein is a running spring, of water, meaning ‘springs’; 
[88:13]
therein are lofty couches, [lofty] in terms of their essence, their size and [physical] location, 
[88:14]
and goblets, vessels without handles, set, around the edges of the springs prepared for them to drink with, 
[88:15]
and cushions arrayed, one next to the other, against which they may lean, 
[88:16]
and carpets, rugs of velvet-hair, spread out. 
[88:17]
Will they, the Meccan disbelievers, not consider, by way of reflection, the camels, how they are created? 
[88:18]
And the heaven, how it was raised? 
[88:19]
And the mountains, how they were set?
[88:20]
And the earth, how it was laid out flat?, and thus infer from this the power of God, exalted be He, and His 

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Oneness? The commencing with the [mention of] camels is because they are closer in contact with it [the 
earth] than any other [animal]. As for His words sutihat, ‘laid out flat’, this on a literal reading suggests that 
the earth is flat, which is the opinion of most of the scholars of the [revealed] Law, and not a sphere as 
astronomers (ahl al-hay’a) have it, even if this [latter] does not contradict any of the pillars of the Law. 
[88:21]
So remind, them of God’s graces and the proofs affirming His Oneness. For you are only an admonisher;
[88:22]
you are not a taskmaster over them (a variant reading [for musaytir] has musaytir, that is to say, [not one 
who has been] given authority over them) — this was [revealed] before the command to struggle [against 
the disbelievers]. 
[88:23]
But he who turns away, [he who] rejects faith, and disbelieves, in the Qur’
ā
n, 
[88:24]
God will chastise him with the greater chastisement, the chastisement of the Hereafter, the lesser 
chastisement being that of this world, that of being killed or taken captive. 
[88:25]
Truly to Us will be their return, their coming back after death, 
[88:26]
then truly with Us will lie their reckoning, their requital, which We will never abandon. 
Meccan, consisting of 30 verses.