Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians, etc.). 2 toiling [under burdens of sin,] worn out [by fear,] 3 about to enter a glowing fire, 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 no food for them except thorny plants 6 Neither nourishing nor banishing hunger. 7 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 In a high Garden 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 Therein will be a flowing spring, 12 therein uplifted couches 13 and goblets set at hand, 14 And cushions ranged! 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Do they not look at the camels, how they are created? 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted? 19 And how the earth was outstretched? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You are not a warden over them, 22 But whoever will turn away (from the Truth), 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 Certainly, it is to Us that they will return. 25 Then verily on Us is their reckoning. 26