Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity? 1 On that Day, there shall be downcast faces, 2 Toiling, weary, 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a fiercely boiling spring. 5 For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 In a Garden on high, 10 where they will hear no idle talk, 11 therein a running fountain, 12 therein uplifted couches 13 and goblets set forth 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 and well spread carpets. 16 What, do they not consider how the camel was created, 17 And the heaven – how it has been raised? 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted and fixed firm? 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 You are not at all a guardian over them. 22 But whosoever will turn back and disbelieve 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 Then, surely, it is for Us to call them to account. 26