Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Has there come to you the narration of the overwhelming (i.e. the Day of Resurrection); 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 Working [hard] and exhausted. 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 Made to drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 well pleased with the result of their striving, 9 In a Garden on high, 10 Where they hear no idle speech, 11 In it is a flowing spring. 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 and goblets laid out, 14 And cushions lined up 15 And carpets spread around. 16 Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made?- 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 how the mountains are set firm, 19 and how the earth is spread out? 20 Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder; 21 thou art not charged to oversee them. 22 As for those who turn their back and disbelieve, 23 So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment. 24 Indeed, to Us they shall return, 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26