Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 Faces on that day humbled, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 They will enter in the hot blazing Fire, 4 They will be given drink from a boiling spring. 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 In a lofty Paradise. 10 Where they hear no idle speech, 11 Within it is a flowing spring. 12 raised couches, 13 Goblets set, 14 Cushions arranged, 15 And carpets spread out. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 And at the Earth, how it is spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You are not a watcher over them; 22 However, as for him who turns away, being bent on denying the truth, 23 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 24 Certainly, it is to Us that they will return. 25 Then indeed only upon Us is their reckoning. 26