Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 Faces on that Day shall be downcast, 2 labouring, weary, 3 (Yet) Going into the blazing fire. 4 Drinking from a boiling spring, 5 they shall have no food but thorns, 6 which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 well-pleased with their striving. 9 in a Garden on high, 10 In which they will not hear any lewd speech. 11 therein a running fountain, 12 Therein shall be couches elevated! 13 well arranged goblets, 14 and cushions arrayed 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 Do they not look at the Camels, how they are made?- 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 and how the mountains were firmly fixed? 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 warden over them, 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 God shall chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26