Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians, etc.). 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire. 4 They will be given drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 Which shall neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 Many faces will be joyous on that day, 8 Well-pleased because of their striving, 9 In an elevated garden, 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 and goblets laid out, 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 And silken carpets spread. 16 Do they not look at the camels, how they are created? 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 how the mountains are set firm, 19 how the earth was outstretched? 20 Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder; 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 24 To Us they will all return. 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26