Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 Many a face will be disgraced on that day. 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire. 4 The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring, 5 No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit 6 Neither nourishing nor banishing hunger. 7 However, on that day the faces of other people will be happy. 8 well-pleased with [the fruit of] their striving, 9 In the high empyrean, 10 where they will hear no idle talk. 11 Wherein is a gushing spring, 12 Wherein are couches raised 13 and goblets placed ready, 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 and carpets outspread. 16 What, do they not consider how the camel was created, 17 And the sky: how it was raised high? 18 And the mountains – how they have been established? 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 You are not a dictator over them. 22 Other than him who turns his back and denies, 23 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 for behold, unto Us will be their return, 25 and verily, It is for Us to call them to account. 26