Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Have you received the news of the Enveloper? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 Working [hard] and exhausted. 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 and will be made to drink from a fiercely boiling spring. 5 No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant, 6 Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 (Whereas other) faces on that Day will be joyful, 8 well pleased with the result of their striving, 9 In a lofty garden, 10 wherein they shall hear no vain talk. 11 In it there shall be a flowing spring, 12 and couches raised high, 13 and goblets laid out, 14 and cushions arrayed 15 And linen spread out. 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 And at the mountains, how firmly they are reared? 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 thou canst not compel them [to believe]. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 To Us they will all return. 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26