AL GHAASYIYAH — Ayat 1
هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَاشِيَةِ
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]?
Tafsir Ibnu Katsir
هَلْ أَتَاكَ حَدِيثُ الْغَـشِيَةِ - وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَـشِعَةٌ - عَامِلَةٌ نَّاصِبَةٌ - تَصْلَى نَاراً حَامِيَةً - تُسْقَى مِنْ عَيْنٍ ءَانِيَةٍ - لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلاَّ مِن ضَرِيعٍ - لاَّ يُسْمِنُ وَلاَ يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍ
1. Has there come to you the narration of Al-Ghashiyah (the overwhelming) 2. Some faces that Day will be Khashi`ah. 3. Laboring, weary. 4. They will enter into Fire, Hamiyah. 5. They will be given to drink from a boiling (Aniyah) spring, 6. No food will there be for them but from Dari`, 7. Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger. This was said by Ibn `Abbas, Qatadah and Ibn Zayd. It has been called this because it will overwhelm the people and overcome them. Allah then says,