Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast, 2 labouring, toilworn, 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 They will be given drink from a boiling spring. 5 For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 Glad with their endeavour (for their good deeds which they did in this world, along with the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism). 9 In the high empyrean, 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 Therein will be a bubbling spring: 12 therein uplifted couches 13 And cups put in place 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 and well spread carpets. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 And the heavens, how it was raised high; 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 (Muhammad), preach; you are only a preacher. 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 As for those who turn their back and disbelieve, 23 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26