Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 On that day (many) faces will be downcast, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 roasting at a scorching 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 which gives no strength and neither stills hunger. 7 [And] some faces will on that Day shine with bliss, 8 well-pleased with [the fruit of] their striving, 9 in a garden sublime, 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 therein uplifted couches 13 and goblets placed ready, 14 And cushions ranged 15 And carpets spread around. 16 What, do they not reflect upon how the camel was created? 17 And at the sky - how it is raised? 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted and fixed firm? 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder. 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Him Allah shall torment with the greatest torment. 24 Surely to Us is their turning back, 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26