Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Hast thou received the story of the Enveloper? 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 (hard in the worldly life by worshipping others besides Allah), weary (in the Hereafter with humility and disgrace). 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling. 5 They shall have no food but of thorns, 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 well pleased with their striving, 9 They will live in an exalted garden 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 and raised couches, 13 And goblets set at hand 14 cushions ranged, 15 And rich carpets spread. 16 Look they not at the camels, how they are created? 17 And how the heaven was raised up, 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer, 21 You are not at all a guardian over them. 22 But whoever turns back and disbelieves, 23 In which case he will be punished by God with the severest punishment. 24 Lo! unto Us is their return 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26