Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 Some faces that Day shall be downcast with fear, 2 labouring, toilworn, 3 they shall enter a burning Fire 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 they shall have no food but thorns, 6 unfattening, unappeasing hunger. 7 [And] some faces will on that Day shine with bliss, 8 well pleased with their striving, 9 In a lofty Paradise. 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 Wherein is a gushing spring, 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 And chosen goblets. 14 And cushions ranged 15 And carpets ready spread, 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 And the heaven – how it has been raised? 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 how the earth was outstretched? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 Thou art not over them a warden. 22 However, those who turn away and disbelieve, 23 Allah will chastise him with the most terrible chastisement. 24 Indeed, to Us they shall return, 25 Then it will be for Us to call them to account. 26