Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Hath there come unto thee tidings of the Overwhelming? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 labouring, weary, 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling. 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 In a high Garden 10 Where they hear no idle speech, 11 with a flowing spring, 12 And within it are couches placed on high, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 well-placed cushions, 15 And rich carpets spread. 16 What, do they not consider how the camel was created, 17 And the heavens, how it was raised high; 18 And the mountains – how they have been established? 19 And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 you are not their keeper. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 To Us they will all return. 25 Then verily on Us is their reckoning. 26