Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 Many a face will be disgraced on that day. 2 toiling [under burdens of sin,] worn out [by fear,] 3 roasting at a scorching Fire 4 and will be made to drink from a boiling spring, 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 However, on that day the faces of other people will be happy. 8 well pleased with their striving, 9 In an elevated garden, 10 wherein they will not hear any vain talk. 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 Therein shall be couches elevated! 13 and goblets laid out, 14 cushions ranged, 15 and well spread carpets. 16 Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created, 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 And at the mountains, how firmly they are reared? 19 how the earth was outstretched? 20 (Muhammad), preach; you are only a preacher. 21 You are not at all a guardian over them. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 will be punished by God with the greatest punishment. 24 Truly, to Us is their return; 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26