Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 Labouring (hard in the worldly life by worshipping others besides Allah), weary (in the Hereafter with humility and disgrace). 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring, 5 They shall have no food but of thorns, 6 unfattening, unappeasing hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 well-pleased with their striving. 9 In a lofty Paradise. 10 wherein they shall hear no vain talk. 11 In it is a flowing spring. 12 therein uplifted couches 13 And cups set at hand. 14 And cushions ranged 15 and carpets spread out. 16 Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made?- 17 And how the heaven was raised up, 18 how the mountains are set firm, 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 (Muhammad), preach; you are only a preacher. 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 24 Indeed, to Us they shall return, 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26