Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Travailing, worn. 3 they shall burn in a Scorching Fire; 4 Given water from the boiling spring to drink. 5 They will have no food except bitter thorn, 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 Many a face will be in serenity on that day. 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 in a garden sublime, 10 Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood, 11 with a flowing spring, 12 Within it are couches raised high 13 Goblets placed (ready), 14 cushions ranged, 15 And linen spread out. 16 Look they not at the camels, how they are created? 17 And at the heaven, how it is raised? 18 And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?- 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 You are not a dictator over them. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 24 Indeed, to Us is their return. 25 Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account. 26