Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians, etc.). 2 be toiling and worn-out; 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 They will be given drink from a boiling spring. 5 For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant 6 which gives no strength and neither stills hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 Well-pleased with their endeavour, 9 in a Garden on high, 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 There is a stream of running water in it; 12 And within it are couches placed on high, 13 And chosen goblets. 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 And linen spread out. 16 DO, THEN, they [who deny resurrection] never gaze at the clouds pregnant with water, [and observe] how they are created? 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up, 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 Then remind them! Thou art only a reminder; 21 you are not their keeper. 22 However, he who turns away and disbelieves - 23 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 24 Surely to Us is their return; 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26