Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 roasting at a scorching Fire 4 and will be made to drink from a boiling spring, 5 they shall have no food but thorns, 6 which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 In a lofty garden, 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 and cushions ranged, 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 What, do they not reflect upon how the camel was created? 17 And how the heaven was raised up, 18 And at the mountains - how they are erected? 19 how the earth was outstretched? 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 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 Surely to Us is their return; 25 And Ours their reckoning. 26