[88:1] Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity?

[88:2] (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast,

[88:3] Laboring, toiling,

[88:4] Entering into burning fire,

[88:5] Made to drink from a boiling spring.

[88:6] They shall have no food but of thorns,

[88:7] Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger.

[88:8] (Other) faces on that day shall be happy,

[88:9] Well-pleased because of their striving,

[88:10] In a lofty garden,

[88:11] Wherein you shall not hear vain talk.

[88:12] Therein is a fountain flowing,

[88:13] Therein are thrones raised high,

[88:14] And drinking-cups ready placed,

[88:15] And cushions set in a row,

[88:16] And carpets spread out.

[88:17] Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created?

[88:18] And the heaven, how it is reared aloft,

[88:19] And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed,

[88:20] And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse?

[88:21] Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.

[88:22] You are not a watcher over them;

[88:23] But whoever turns back and disbelieves,

[88:24] Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement.

[88:25] Surely to Us is their turning back,

[88:26] Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account.