Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 On that Day, there shall be downcast faces, 2 troubled and tired as a result of their deeds in the past. 3 they shall burn in a Scorching Fire; 4 Made to drink from a boiling spring. 5 For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant 6 Which shall neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 They shall be in a Garden lofty: 10 Where they hear no idle speech, 11 with a flowing spring, 12 raised couches, 13 and goblets set forth 14 well-placed cushions, 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 Do they not look at the camels, how they are created? 17 And at the sky - how it is raised? 18 and how the mountains were firmly fixed? 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You are not over them a controller. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Allah will chastise him with the most terrible chastisement. 24 To Us is surely their returning; 25 And Ours their reckoning. 26