Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 Entering into burning fire, 4 Made to drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 Faces on that Day shall be delighted, 8 With their endeavour well pleased. 9 in a Garden on high, 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 There is a stream of running water in it; 12 and raised couches, 13 and goblets placed ready, 14 and cushions arrayed in rows, 15 And rich carpets spread. 16 Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created, 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 And the mountains: how they were fixed? 19 And how the earth was outstretched? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment. 24 Indeed, to Us they shall return, 25 Then verily on Us is their reckoning. 26