Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Hath there come unto thee the story of the Enveloping Event? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 laboring, wornout, 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 However, on that day the faces of other people will be happy. 8 well-pleased with their striving. 9 In a Garden on high, 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 Therein will be a flowing spring, 12 therein uplifted couches 13 Goblets placed (ready), 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 What, do they not consider how the camel was created, 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 how the earth was outstretched? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 Thou art not over them a warden. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment. 24 To Us is surely their returning; 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26