Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 labouring, toilworn, 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring, 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 which gives no strength and neither stills hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 With their endeavour well pleased. 9 They will be in a lofty Garden 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 In it is a flowing spring. 12 therein uplifted couches 13 And goblets ready placed! 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 Look they not at the camels, how they are created? 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 how the mountains are set firm, 19 And the earth, how it is spread? 20 (Muhammad), preach; you are only a preacher. 21 You are not at all a guardian over them. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 In which case he will be punished by God with the severest punishment. 24 Lo! unto Us is their return 25 Then it will be for Us to call them to account. 26