Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 their drink shall be from a boiling spring. 5 They will have no food except bitter thorn, 6 which will neither fatten them nor satisfy them. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 Well-pleased because of their striving, 9 In the high empyrean, 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 There is a stream of running water in it; 12 Wherein are couches raised 13 well arranged goblets, 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 And carpets spread around. 16 So do they not see the camel – how it has been created? 17 And the heaven – how it has been raised? 18 how the mountains are set firm, 19 how the earth was outstretched? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 him will God cause to suffer the greatest suffering [in the life to come]: 24 Indeed, to Us they shall return, 25 Then indeed, upon Us is their account. 26