Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians, etc.). 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 They will be given drink from a boiling spring. 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 Neither nourishing nor banishing hunger. 7 (Other) faces, that Day, will be joyful, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 in a sublime Garden, 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 therein a running fountain, 12 Wherein are couches raised 13 And chosen goblets. 14 And arranged carpets. 15 And rich carpets spread. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 And the heaven, how it is raised? 18 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, 19 And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse? 20 Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder; 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 To Us they will all return. 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26