Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Faces on that Day shall be downcast, 2 labouring, weary, 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a boiling spring, 5 They shall have no food but of thorns, 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 With their endeavour well pleased. 9 They shall be in a Garden lofty: 10 In which they will not hear any lewd speech. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 [and] there will be thrones [of happiness] raised high, 13 And cups set at hand. 14 and cushions ranged, 15 and carpets spread out. 16 Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created? 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 And the earth: how it was spread out? 20 Therefore remind, you are only a Reminder. 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 them with the greatest punishment. 24 for behold, unto Us will be their return, 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26