Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Travailing, worn. 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a boiling spring, 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 Faces on that Day shall be delighted, 8 well-pleased with their striving. 9 In a Garden on high, 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 Wherein is a gushing spring, 12 In which are high thrones. 13 and prepared goblets, 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 And rich carpets spread. 16 Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created? 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 And at the mountains - how they are erected? 19 And the earth - how it has been spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 Truly, to Us is their return; 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26