Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 Faces on that day humbled, 2 Toiling, weary, 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a fiercely boiling spring. 5 they shall have no food but thorns, 6 which neither sustains, nor satisfy hunger. 7 (Other) faces that Day will be joyful, 8 Well-pleased because of their striving, 9 They will live in an exalted garden 10 wherein they shall hear no vain talk. 11 In it is a flowing spring. 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 and prepared goblets, 14 And cushions lined up 15 And silken carpets spread. 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 And the mountains: how they were fixed? 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 (Muhammad), preach; you are only a preacher. 21 Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 Then indeed only upon Us is their reckoning. 26