Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 labouring, weary, 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit 6 that will neither nourish nor satisfy their hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 In a high Garden 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 Therein is a fountain flowing, 12 In which are high thrones. 13 Goblets placed (ready), 14 and cushions ranged, 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created? 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up, 19 And how the earth was outstretched? 20 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer, 21 You are not at all a guardian over them. 22 Other than him who turns his back and denies, 23 In which case he will be punished by God with the severest punishment. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26