Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Labouring (hard), weary,- 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 They will be given drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 unfattening, unappeasing hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 in a Garden on high, 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 There is a stream of running water in it; 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 and prepared goblets, 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created, 17 And at the Sky, how it is raised high?- 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted and fixed firm? 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 (Muhammad), preach; you are only a preacher. 21 You do not have full control over them. 22 But whoever turns back and disbelieves, 23 Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment, 24 for behold, unto Us will be their return, 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26