Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 Many a face will be disgraced on that day. 2 Toiling, weary, 3 about to enter a glowing fire, 4 Drinking from a boiling spring, 5 They shall have no food but of thorns, 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 Well-pleased because of their striving, 9 In a Garden on high, 10 hearing there no babble; 11 with a flowing spring, 12 Wherein are couches raised 13 And goblets ready placed! 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 and carpets spread out. 16 So do they not see the camel - how it has been created? 17 And at the sky - how it is raised? 18 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, 19 And how the earth was outstretched? 20 Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder; 21 thou art not charged to oversee them. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 Indeed, to Us they shall return, 25 And Ours their reckoning. 26