Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 labouring, weary, 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 They shall have no food but of thorns, 6 Which neither give strength nor satisfy the hunger. 7 Many a face will be in serenity on that day. 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 In a lofty garden, 10 wherein they shall hear no vain talk. 11 A gushing fountain shall be there 12 raised couches, 13 And goblets set at hand 14 And arranged carpets. 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 how the mountains are set firm, 19 And the earth: how it was spread out? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 You are not a warden over them, 22 However, as for him who turns away, being bent on denying the truth, 23 So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment. 24 Certainly, it is to Us that they will return. 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26