Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
Have you heard the story of the overwhelming event (the Day of Judgment)? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians, etc.). 2 Labouring, wearied out, 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring, 5 They will have no food except bitter thorn, 6 unfattening, unappeasing hunger. 7 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 In a lofty garden, 10 hearing there no babble; 11 Countless springs will flow therein, 12 and couches raised high, 13 and prepared goblets, 14 And cushions ranged 15 and well spread carpets. 16 Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created, 17 and on the sky, how it is raised aloft, 18 And the mountains: how they were fixed? 19 And the earth, how it is spread? 20 Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder. 21 Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs. 22 However, as for him who turns away, being bent on denying the truth, 23 So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment. 24 Indeed, to Us they shall return, 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26