Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most 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 labouring, weary, 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 Given water from the boiling spring to drink. 5 They will have no food other than bitter and thorny fruit 6 which will neither fatten them nor satisfy them. 7 Many a face will be in serenity on that day. 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In a lofty garden, 10 where they will hear no idle talk, 11 therein a running fountain, 12 [and] there will be thrones [of happiness] raised high, 13 And goblets set at hand 14 cushions ranged, 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created? 17 And the heaven – how it has been raised? 18 And at the mountains - how they are erected? 19 And the earth: how it was spread out? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 You are not over them a controller. 22 However, as for him who turns away, being bent on denying the truth, 23 Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment, 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 Then it will be for Us to call them to account. 26