Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 Travailing, worn. 3 (Yet) Going into the blazing fire. 4 Made to drink water from the boiling hot spring. 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 unfattening, unappeasing hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 They will live in an exalted garden 10 where they will hear no idle talk. 11 There is a stream of running water in it; 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 And goblets ready placed! 14 well-placed cushions, 15 And carpets spread out. 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 And the heaven – how it has been raised? 18 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish. 21 Thou art not over them a warden. 22 But whoso is averse and disbelieveth, 23 Allah will chastise him with the most terrible chastisement. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 And Ours their reckoning. 26