Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Working [hard] and exhausted. 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 They will be given drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant, 6 Which shall neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 in a sublime garden, 10 wherein they will not hear any vain talk. 11 A gushing fountain shall be there 12 Therein shall be couches elevated! 13 And cups put in place 14 And cushions ranged! 15 And carpets spread out. 16 Look they not at the camels, how they are created? 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 And the mountains – how they have been established? 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 So remind them (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)), you are only a one who reminds. 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 As for those who turn their back and disbelieve, 23 Him Allah shall torment with the greatest torment. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26