Al-Ghaashiya
سورة الغاشيةThis is the Arabic text of the Tafsīr al-Jalālayn of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī and Jalāl al-Dīn as-Suyūṭī as the OpenITI corpus has it, from the copy of altafsir.com that the COBHUNI project of Hamburg University took: only the commentary on the verses, with no introductions, no edition and no pagination. Nobody has compared it with a printed book or a manuscript, and no scholar has reviewed it. Each passage stands beside the verses it comments on, which are the Qur’ān text of Tanzil, shown as it is there. Beneath each passage stands its English translation by Feras Hamza, as the copy of Tarteel’s Quranic Universal Library has it; nobody has compared that copy with the printed book either.
Text fromOpenITICC BY-NC-SA 4.0altafsir.comtaken 2026-10-21English translation: Feras Hamza, Tafsir al-Jalalayn (Fons Vitae, 2008), as published at altafsir.com by the Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought, from the copy of Tarteel’s Quranic Universal Library. altafsir.comQUL
هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ ٱلْغَـٰشِيَةِ 1
{ هل } قد { أتك حديث الغشية } القيامة لأنها تغشى الخلائق بأهوالها.
Has there — [there has] indeed — come to you the tiding of the Enveloper?, the Resurrection, [so called] because it ‘envelops’ creatures with its terrors.
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَـٰشِعَةٌ 2
{ وجوه يومئذ } عبر بها عن الذوات في الموضعين { خشعة } ذليلة.
Some faces on that day — they [faces] are used to represent the individuals in both instances — will be humbled, abject,
عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ 3
{ عاملة ناصبة } ذات نصب وتعب بالسلاسل والأغلال.
toiling, weary, tired and exhausted from the chains and fetters,
تَصْلَىٰ نَارًا حَامِيَةً 4
{ تصلى } بفتح التاء وضمها { نارا حامية }.
roasting (read taslā or tuslā) in a scorching fire,
تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ ءَانِيَةٍ 5
{ تسقى من عين ءانية } شديدة الحرارة.
made to drink from a boiling spring, one of extremely hot temperatures.
لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍ 6
{ ليس لهم طعام إلا من ضريع } هو نوع من الشوك لا ترعاه دابة لخبثه.
They will have no food except cactus (darī‘) — a type of thorn plant which no animal grazes on because of its vileness —
لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍ 7
{ لا يسمن ولا يغنى من جوع }.
neither nourishing, nor availing against hunger.
وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ نَّاعِمَةٌ 8
{ وجوه يومئذ ناعمة } حسنة.
Other faces on that day will be delicate, fair,
لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌ 9
{ لسعيها } في الدنيا بالطاعة { راضية } في الآخرة لما رأت ثوابه.
pleased by their efforts, in the [life of the] world [expended] in obedience, [pleased] in the Hereafter upon seeing the reward thereof;
فِى جَنَّةٍ عَالِيَةٍ 10
{ فى جنة عالية } حسا ومعنى.
in a lofty Garden, [lofty] in a physical as well as an abstract sense,
لَّا تَسْمَعُ فِيهَا لَـٰغِيَةً 11
{ لا تسمع } بالتاء والياء { فيها لغية } أي نفس ذات لغو: أي هذيان من الكلام.
in which they will not hear (read lā yusma‘u, ‘will not be heard’, or lā tasma‘u, ‘they will not hear’) any vanity, any inane soul, speaking drivel;
فِيهَا عَيْنٌ جَارِيَةٌ 12
{ فيها عين جارية } بالماء بمعنى عيون.
therein is a running spring, of water, meaning ‘springs’;