Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
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 be toiling and worn-out; 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 Drinking from a boiling spring, 5 For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 (Other) faces, that Day, will be joyful, 8 and pleased with the result of their deeds in the past. 9 in a sublime Garden, 10 where they will hear no idle talk. 11 Wherein is a gushing spring, 12 Within it are couches raised high 13 And cups set at hand. 14 Cushions arranged, 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 Will they not regard the camels, how they are created? 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 And the earth, how it is spread? 20 Admonish thou then; thou art but an admonisher. 21 You are not a dictator over them. 22 However, as for him who turns away, being bent on denying the truth, 23 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Surely to Us is their turning back, 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26