Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 roasting at a scorching Fire 4 Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling. 5 They will have no food other than bitter and thorny fruit 6 which gives no strength and neither stills hunger. 7 Many faces will be joyous on that day, 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 in a sublime Garden, 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 A gushing fountain shall be there 12 And within it are couches placed on high, 13 And cups set at hand. 14 Cushions arranged, 15 And rich carpets spread. 16 Do they not look at the camels, how they are created? 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 And at the mountains, how firmly they are reared? 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer, 21 thou canst not compel them [to believe]. 22 However, as for him who turns away, being bent on denying the truth, 23 will be punished by God with the greatest punishment. 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26