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, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 be toiling and worn-out; 3 roasting at a scorching Fire 4 that is fueled from a tremendously hot fountain, 5 No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant, 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 Many a face will be in serenity on that day. 8 With their endeavour well pleased. 9 in a garden sublime, 10 Where they hear no idle speech, 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 And goblets set at hand 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 And carpets spread around. 16 So do they not see the camel – how it has been created? 17 And at the heaven, how it is raised? 18 and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up, 19 And the earth, how it was spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 thou art not charged to oversee them. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 Him Allah shall torment with the greatest torment. 24 Indeed, to Us is their return. 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26