Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 Going into the blazing fire. 4 The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring, 5 They will have no food except bitter thorn, 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 well-pleased with [the fruit of] their striving, 9 in a Garden on high, 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 In it there shall be a flowing spring, 12 raised couches, 13 and prepared goblets, 14 and arranged cushions 15 And carpets ready spread, 16 Will they not regard the camels, how they are created? 17 and on the sky, how it is raised aloft, 18 and how the mountains were firmly fixed? 19 And the earth, how it was spread out? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs. 22 But whoever turns back and disbelieves, 23 will be punished by God with the greatest punishment. 24 Verily unto Us is their return. 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26