Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)? 1 Faces on that day humbled, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 They will enter in the hot blazing 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 shall neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 In the high empyrean, 10 hearing there no babble; 11 Within it is a flowing spring. 12 Within it are couches raised high 13 and prepared goblets, 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 how heaven was lifted up, 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 and on the earth, how it is spread out? 20 Therefore remind, you are only a Reminder. 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 But whoever turns back and disbelieves, 23 So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment. 24 Indeed only towards Us is their return 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26