Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians, etc.). 2 troubled and tired as a result of their deeds in the past. 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring, 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 (Whereas other) faces on that Day will be joyful, 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 in a sublime Garden, 10 wherein they shall hear no vain talk. 11 therein a running fountain, 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 And goblets ready placed! 14 And arranged carpets. 15 And rich carpets spread. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 And how the heaven was raised up, 18 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 Remind them; you are surely a reminder. 21 you are not their keeper. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 Then indeed only upon Us is their reckoning. 26