Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 Toiling, weary, 3 they shall burn in a Scorching Fire; 4 and will be made to drink from a boiling spring, 5 they shall have no food but thorns, 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 (Other) faces, that Day, will be joyful, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 In a high Garden 10 Where they hear no idle speech, 11 therein a running fountain, 12 therein uplifted couches 13 and goblets laid out, 14 cushions ranged, 15 And carpets spread around. 16 Do (these unbelievers) not observe the camels: how they were created? 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 And the mountains – how they have been established? 19 And how the earth was outstretched? 20 Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder; 21 You are not over them a controller. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 And Ours their reckoning. 26