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, wornout, 3 They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire. 4 and will be made to drink from a fiercely boiling spring. 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 On that very Day some faces shall be radiant with joy, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 They will live in an exalted garden 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 There is a stream of running water in it; 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 Goblets placed (ready), 14 well-placed cushions, 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created? 17 And the heaven – how it has been raised? 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted and fixed firm? 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 thou art not charged to oversee them. 22 But whoever turns back and disbelieves, 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 Verily unto Us is their return. 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26