Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 Faces on that Day shall be downcast, 2 Travailing, worn. 3 They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire. 4 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring, 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 In an elevated garden, 10 Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood, 11 There is a stream of running water in it; 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 and cushions arrayed 15 and carpets spread out. 16 Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created? 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 And the mountains: how they were fixed? 19 And the earth: how it was spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You are not a dictator over them. 22 However, those who turn away and disbelieve, 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 Verily unto Us is their return. 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26