Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 Toiling, weary, 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a fiercely boiling spring. 5 No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit 6 Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 [And] some faces will on that Day shine with bliss, 8 well-pleased with [the fruit of] their striving, 9 They will live in an exalted garden 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 [and] there will be thrones [of happiness] raised high, 13 And chosen goblets. 14 Cushions arranged, 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made?- 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 and on the earth, how it is spread out? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 You are not over them a controller. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Allah will chastise him with the most terrible chastisement. 24 Surely to Us is their return; 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26