Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians, etc.). 2 Travailing, worn. 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 They will be given drink from a boiling spring. 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 which neither sustains, nor satisfy hunger. 7 On that very Day some faces shall be radiant with joy, 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In a high Garden 10 In which they will not hear any lewd speech. 11 Wherein is a gushing spring, 12 raised couches, 13 And cups put in place 14 And cushions ranged 15 And silken carpets spread. 16 Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created? 17 And the sky: how it was raised high? 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted? 19 And the earth, how it was spread out? 20 Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder. 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26