Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 Faces on that day humbled, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a fiercely boiling spring. 5 No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 well pleased with their striving, 9 In a high Garden 10 hearing there no babble; 11 Within it is a flowing spring. 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 Goblets placed (ready), 14 And arranged carpets. 15 and outspread carpets. 16 What, do they not reflect upon how the camel was created? 17 And the heavens, how it was raised high; 18 and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up, 19 And the earth, how it was spread out? 20 (Muhammad), preach; you are only a preacher. 21 You are not charged to oversee them. 22 Except whoever turns away and disbelieves – 23 him will God cause to suffer the greatest suffering [in the life to come]: 24 Verily unto Us is their return. 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26