Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 On that Day faces shall be humbled, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 that is fueled from a tremendously hot fountain, 5 No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant, 6 Which neither give strength nor satisfy the hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 With their effort [they are] satisfied 9 In the high empyrean, 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 There is a stream of running water in it; 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 Goblets set, 14 and arranged cushions 15 And carpets ready spread, 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 And at the mountains, how firmly they are reared? 19 and on the earth, how it is spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You are not a dictator over them. 22 As for those who turn their back and disbelieve, 23 Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment. 24 To Us is surely their returning; 25 And Ours their reckoning. 26