Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Have you heard about 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, weary, 3 roasting at a scorching Fire 4 Given water from the boiling spring to drink. 5 No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant, 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 well pleased with the result of their striving, 9 In a lofty Paradise. 10 wherein they will not hear any vain talk. 11 Countless springs will flow therein, 12 therein uplifted couches 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 and carpets spread out. 16 Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created? 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 And the earth, how it is spread? 20 Remind them; you are surely a reminder. 21 You are not at all a guardian over them. 22 Other than him who turns his back and denies, 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 Indeed, to Us is their return. 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26