Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Labouring (hard in the worldly life by worshipping others besides Allah), weary (in the Hereafter with humility and disgrace). 3 about to enter a glowing fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a boiling spring, 5 They will have no food other than bitter and thorny fruit 6 which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 Well-pleased with their endeavour, 9 In a lofty Paradise. 10 Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech. 11 A gushing fountain shall be there 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 and cushions arrayed in rows, 15 and well spread carpets. 16 So do they not see the camel – how it has been created? 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?- 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 thou art not charged to oversee them. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Certainly, it is to Us that they will return. 25 Then verily on Us is their reckoning. 26