Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Labouring (hard), weary,- 3 Entering into burning fire, 4 Made to drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 that will neither nourish nor satisfy their hunger. 7 (Other) faces that Day will be joyful, 8 Well-pleased with their endeavour, 9 They will live in an exalted garden 10 In which they will not hear any lewd speech. 11 In it is a flowing spring. 12 [and] there will be thrones [of happiness] raised high, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 and cushions arrayed in rows, 15 And linen spread out. 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 And the heaven – how it has been raised? 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted? 19 and how the earth is spread out? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 thou canst not compel them [to believe]. 22 Other than him who turns his back and denies, 23 Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment, 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 Then verily on Us is their reckoning. 26