Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 Made to drink from a boiling spring. 5 They will have no food except bitter thorn, 6 unfattening, unappeasing hunger. 7 Faces on that Day shall be delighted, 8 Well-pleased with their endeavour, 9 They will be in a lofty Garden 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 Countless springs will flow therein, 12 and couches raised high, 13 and prepared goblets, 14 and cushions ranged, 15 And rich carpets spread. 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 And the mountains: how they were fixed? 19 And the earth, how it was spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 thou art not charged to oversee them. 22 As for those who turn their back and disbelieve, 23 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 To Us is surely their returning; 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26