Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity? 1 On that Day faces shall be humbled, 2 Labouring (hard), weary,- 3 They will enter in the hot blazing Fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a fiercely boiling spring. 5 They will have no food other than bitter and thorny fruit 6 which will neither fatten them nor satisfy them. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 in a sublime Garden, 10 where they will hear no idle talk, 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 and goblets set at hand, 14 And arranged carpets. 15 And carpets spread out. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 how the mountains are set firm, 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 Thou art not over them a warden. 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 unto Us is their return. 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26