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 Some faces that Day shall be downcast with fear, 2 toiling [under burdens of sin,] worn out [by fear,] 3 about to enter a glowing fire, 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant 6 that will neither nourish nor satisfy their hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 in a sublime garden, 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 Therein will be a flowing spring, 12 raised couches, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 and cushions ranged, 15 and carpets outspread. 16 Look they not at the camels, how they are created? 17 And at the Sky, how it is raised high?- 18 And the mountains – how they have been established? 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 Other than him who turns his back and denies, 23 Him Allah shall torment with the greatest torment. 24 Surely to Us is their return; 25 And Ours their reckoning. 26