Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 Travailing, worn. 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 that is fueled from a tremendously hot fountain, 5 they shall have no food but thorns, 6 which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 Many a face will be in serenity on that day. 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 In a Garden on high, 10 hearing there no babble; 11 Therein will be a flowing spring, 12 [and] there will be thrones [of happiness] raised high, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 and cushions ranged, 15 and carpets outspread. 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 how the mountains were hoisted, 19 And at the earth - how it is spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 Indeed only towards Us is their return 25 Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account. 26