Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 On that Day faces shall be humbled, 2 be toiling and worn-out; 3 about to enter a glowing fire, 4 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring, 5 they shall have no food but thorns, 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 Many faces will be joyous on that day, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 In the high empyrean, 10 Where they hear no idle speech, 11 Therein is a fountain flowing, 12 therein uplifted couches 13 and goblets laid out, 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 And carpets spread out. 16 Look they not at the camels, how they are created? 17 And the sky: how it was raised high? 18 And at the mountains - how they are erected? 19 And the earth: how it was spread out? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 Thou art not over them a warden. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 Allah will chastise him with the most terrible chastisement. 24 Truly, to Us is their return; 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26