Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 [Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled, 2 be toiling and worn-out; 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a boiling spring, 5 For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant 6 unfattening, unappeasing hunger. 7 However, on that day the faces of other people will be happy. 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In a Garden on high, 10 wherein they will not hear any vain talk. 11 therein a running fountain, 12 Wherein are couches raised 13 and goblets placed ready, 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made?- 17 And the heaven, how it is raised? 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 And the earth, how it is spread? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 But whoever will turn away (from the Truth), 23 Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment, 24 for behold, unto Us will be their return, 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26