Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 They will be given drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant, 6 Which shall neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy, 8 well pleased with the result of their striving, 9 They will live in an exalted garden 10 hearing there no babble; 11 Therein is a fountain flowing, 12 Wherein are couches raised 13 Goblets set, 14 and cushions arrayed in rows, 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Do they not look at the camels, how they are created? 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 And at the earth - how it is spread out? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 thou canst not compel them [to believe]. 22 But whoso is averse and disbelieveth, 23 Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment, 24 Surely to Us is their return; 25 Then indeed, upon Us is their account. 26