Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)? 1 Some faces that Day shall be downcast with fear, 2 Working [hard] and exhausted. 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 Drinking from a boiling spring, 5 they shall have no food but thorns, 6 unfattening, unappeasing hunger. 7 [And] some faces will on that Day shine with bliss, 8 well pleased with their striving, 9 They will be in a lofty Garden 10 wherein they shall hear no vain talk. 11 In it is a flowing spring. 12 Within it are couches raised high 13 Goblets placed (ready), 14 and cushions ranged, 15 And silken carpets spread. 16 Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created? 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?- 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 thou canst not compel them [to believe]. 22 However, he who turns away and disbelieves - 23 him will God cause to suffer the greatest suffering [in the life to come]: 24 Truly, to Us is their return; 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26