Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 On that Day faces shall be humbled, 2 laboring, wornout, 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling. 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 (Other) faces that Day will be joyful, 8 With their effort [they are] satisfied 9 In a lofty garden, 10 In which they will not hear any lewd speech. 11 In it there shall be a flowing spring, 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 And cups set at hand. 14 And cushions ranged! 15 and carpets outspread. 16 Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created, 17 And the sky: how it was raised high? 18 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, 19 and how the earth is spread out? 20 So render good counsel, for you are simply required to counsel, 21 You are not charged to oversee them. 22 But whoever will turn away (from the Truth), 23 So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment. 24 Indeed, to Us they shall return, 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26