Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 labouring, toilworn, 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring, 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 which will neither fatten them nor satisfy them. 7 Many a face will be in serenity on that day. 8 well-pleased with their striving. 9 In a lofty Paradise. 10 hearing there no babble; 11 Countless springs will flow therein, 12 Therein shall be couches elevated! 13 Goblets set, 14 Cushions arranged, 15 and well spread carpets. 16 Do they not look at the camels, how they are created? 17 And at the sky - how it is raised? 18 And at the mountains - how they are erected? 19 and on the earth, how it is spread out? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 You are not over them a controller. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 him will God cause to suffer the greatest suffering [in the life to come]: 24 Lo! unto Us is their return 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26