Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians, etc.). 2 Working [hard] and exhausted. 3 they shall burn in a Scorching Fire; 4 Made to drink water from the boiling hot spring. 5 no food for them except thorny plants 6 which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy, 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 In the high empyrean, 10 In which they will not hear any lewd speech. 11 therein a running fountain, 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 Goblets placed (ready), 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 And the mountains – how they have been established? 19 And the earth, how it was spread out? 20 So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder. 21 You are not a dictator over them. 22 But whoever will turn away (from the Truth), 23 So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment. 24 To Us they will all return. 25 Then it will be for Us to call them to account. 26