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 Many a face will be disgraced on that day. 2 labouring, toilworn, 3 (Yet) Going into the blazing fire. 4 Drinking from a boiling spring, 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 which will neither fatten them nor satisfy them. 7 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy, 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 in a Garden on high, 10 hearing there no babble; 11 with a flowing spring, 12 raised couches, 13 Goblets set, 14 And cushions ranged! 15 And rich carpets spread. 16 Do they not look at the camels, how they are created? 17 and on the sky, how it is raised aloft, 18 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, 19 And at the Earth, how it is spread out? 20 Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder; 21 thou canst not compel them [to believe]. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 Surely to Us is their return; 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26