Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Have you heard the story of the overwhelming event (the Day of Judgment)? 1 Some faces that Day shall be downcast with fear, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 roasting at a scorching Fire 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 Many faces will be joyous on that day, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 In an elevated garden, 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 Within it is a flowing spring. 12 Therein shall be couches elevated! 13 Goblets set, 14 Cushions arranged, 15 And carpets ready spread, 16 So do they not see the camel – how it has been created? 17 And the sky: how it was raised high? 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 And the earth, how it is spread? 20 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer, 21 thou art not charged to oversee them. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Allah will chastise him with the most terrible chastisement. 24 Verily unto Us is their return. 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26