Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Many a face will be disgraced on that day. 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 Drinking from a boiling spring, 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 unfattening, unappeasing hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 With their endeavour well pleased. 9 In an elevated garden, 10 wherein they shall hear no vain talk. 11 with a flowing spring, 12 Therein will be Thrones (of dignity), raised on high, 13 And cups set at hand. 14 and cushions ranged, 15 and well spread carpets. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 And how the heaven was raised up, 18 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 thou art not charged to oversee them. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 In which case he will be punished by God with the severest punishment. 24 Verily unto Us is their return. 25 Then it will be for Us to call them to account. 26