Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Have you heard about 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 Labouring (hard), weary,- 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 Made to drink water from the boiling hot spring. 5 No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 Faces on that Day shall be delighted, 8 and pleased with the result of their deeds in the past. 9 They will live in an exalted garden 10 Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech. 11 Therein will be a flowing spring, 12 In which are high thrones. 13 well arranged goblets, 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 And linen spread out. 16 Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created? 17 And the heaven, how it is raised? 18 And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?- 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You are not a watcher over them; 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26