Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Have you heard the story of the overwhelming event (the Day of Judgment)? 1 [Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 Made to drink from a boiling spring. 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 which will neither fatten them nor satisfy them. 7 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy, 8 Well-pleased because of their striving, 9 In an elevated garden, 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 A gushing fountain shall be there 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 And cups put in place 14 and cushions ranged, 15 And carpets spread around. 16 Look they not at the camels, how they are created? 17 and on the sky, how it is raised aloft, 18 And the mountains: how they were fixed? 19 And the earth: how it was spread out? 20 Remind them; you are surely a reminder. 21 You are not a warden over them, 22 But whoso is averse and disbelieveth, 23 God shall chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Lo! unto Us is their return 25 Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account. 26