Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 On that Day, there shall be downcast faces, 2 toiling [under burdens of sin,] worn out [by fear,] 3 The while they enter the Blazing Fire,- 4 Made to drink water from the boiling hot spring. 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 Which neither give strength nor satisfy the hunger. 7 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 In a lofty Paradise. 10 wherein they will not hear any vain talk. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 and raised couches, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 Cushions arranged, 15 and well spread carpets. 16 So do they not see the camel – how it has been created? 17 And the heaven, how it is raised? 18 and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up, 19 how the earth was outstretched? 20 Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder; 21 You are not a dictator over them. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment, 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 And Ours their reckoning. 26