Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Have you heard about 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 Labouring, striving hard. 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 There is no food for them except thorns of fire. 6 that will neither nourish nor satisfy their hunger. 7 Many a face will be in serenity on that day. 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In a lofty Paradise. 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 Therein is a fountain flowing, 12 In which are high thrones. 13 and goblets set at hand, 14 and cushions ranged, 15 And carpets ready spread, 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 you are not their keeper. 22 However, those who turn away and disbelieve, 23 Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment. 24 Indeed, to Us is their return. 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26