Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Have you heard the story of the overwhelming event (the Day of Judgment)? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 their drink shall be from a boiling spring. 5 There is no food for them except thorns of fire. 6 unfattening, unappeasing hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 With their effort [they are] satisfied 9 in a sublime garden, 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 Therein will be a flowing spring, 12 [and] there will be thrones [of happiness] raised high, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 and cushions ranged, 15 And silken carpets spread. 16 Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made?- 17 And the heaven – how it has been raised? 18 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, 19 how the earth was outstretched? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 You are not at all a guardian over them. 22 But whoever will turn away (from the Truth), 23 Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26