Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 Travailing, worn. 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 and will be made to drink from a boiling spring, 5 They will have no food other than bitter and thorny fruit 6 Which shall neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 They shall be in a Garden lofty: 10 wherein they will not hear any vain talk. 11 There is a stream of running water in it; 12 therein uplifted couches 13 and goblets set forth 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 And carpets spread around. 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 how the mountains are set firm, 19 And at the earth - how it is spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You do not have full control over them. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment. 24 Indeed, to Us is their return. 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26