Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 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, toilworn, 3 Yet, going into the blazing fire. 4 Made to drink water from the boiling hot spring. 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 However, on that day the faces of other people will be happy. 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In a lofty Paradise. 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 In which are high thrones. 13 and goblets placed ready, 14 cushions ranged, 15 And linen spread out. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 And at the sky - how it is raised? 18 And the mountains - how they have been established? 19 how the earth was outstretched? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 thou art not charged to oversee them. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 To Us is surely their returning; 25 Then, surely, it is for Us to call them to account. 26