Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 On that Day, there shall be downcast faces, 2 labouring, weary, 3 about to enter a glowing fire, 4 Given water from the boiling spring to drink. 5 For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant 6 Neither nourishing nor banishing hunger. 7 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy, 8 With their endeavour well pleased. 9 They shall be in a Garden lofty: 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 Therein is a fountain flowing, 12 therein uplifted couches 13 well arranged goblets, 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 and carpets spread out. 16 Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created? 17 And at the Sky, how it is raised high?- 18 And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?- 19 and how the earth is spread out? 20 Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder. 21 You are not at all a guardian over them. 22 However, he who turns away and disbelieves - 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 To Us is surely their returning; 25 Then indeed only upon Us is their reckoning. 26