Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 On that day (many) faces will be downcast, 2 Labouring (hard), weary,- 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring, 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 Which neither give strength nor satisfy the hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 well pleased with the result of their striving, 9 In the high empyrean, 10 wherein they shall hear no vain talk. 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 and cushions ranged, 15 And carpets ready spread, 16 Do (these unbelievers) not observe the camels: how they were created? 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 And the earth, how it is spread? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 You are not a dictator over them. 22 But whosoever will turn back and disbelieve 23 In which case he will be punished by God with the severest punishment. 24 Surely to Us is their return; 25 And Ours their reckoning. 26