Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Hast thou received the story of the Enveloper? 1 On that day (many) faces will be downcast, 2 laboring, wornout, 3 Entering into burning fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a fiercely boiling spring. 5 No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant, 6 Which shall neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy, 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 In a lofty Paradise. 10 In which they will not hear any lewd speech. 11 with a flowing spring, 12 Within it are couches raised high 13 And cups put in place 14 Cushions arranged, 15 And carpets ready spread, 16 Will they not regard the camels, how they are created? 17 And at the heaven, how it is raised? 18 how the mountains are set firm, 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 charged to oversee them. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 In which case he will be punished by God with the severest punishment. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26