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The Ocean of the Quran

Chapter 88 of 114

Al-Ghāshiyah · The Enveloper

26 versesMeccanPublished · 26 of 26 verses

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سُورَةُ الغاشية

About this chapter

Sūrat al-Ghāshiyah is unanimously accepted as a Meccan surah, and has twenty-six verses. The themes in the surah also confirm it as being Meccan. It is the sixty-eighth surah in order of revelation and therefore a later Meccan surah.

The introduction sets out when the chapter came and what it addresses; the merits gather what the narrations say of reading it. Both are written as units of the tafsir, with their own footnotes.

IntroductionWhat the chapter is about, and when it cameMeritsWhat the narrations say of reading it

The verses

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  1. 1 Has there come to you the account of the Enveloper?
  2. 2 Some faces on that day will be humbled.
  3. 3 Toiling and weary.
  4. 4 They will enter a scorching fire.
  5. 5 And forced to drink from a boiling spring.
  6. 6 They will have no food except bitter dry thorns.
  7. 7 Neither nourishing, nor availing against hunger.
  8. 8 Some faces on that day will be joyous.
  9. 9 Pleased with their endeavour.
  10. 10 In a lofty paradise.
  11. 11 Wherein they will not hear any vain talk.
  12. 12 In it there is a flowing spring.
  13. 13 And in it there are raised couches.
  14. 14 And goblets set.
  15. 15 And cushions laid out in an array.
  16. 16 And carpets spread out.
  17. 17 Do they not observe the camel, [to see] how she has been created?
  18. 18 And the sky, how it has been raised?
  19. 19 And the mountains, how they have been set?
  20. 20 And the earth, how it has been surfaced?
  21. 21 So remind – for you are only a reminder.
  22. 22 And not a taskmaster over them.
  23. 23 Except him who turns back and disbelieves.
  24. 24 Him Allah will punish with the greatest punishment.
  1. 25 Indeed to Us will be their return.
  2. 26 Then, indeed, their reckoning will lie with Us.

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