Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity? 1 Faces on that day humbled, 2 Travailing, worn. 3 They will enter in the hot blazing Fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a fiercely boiling spring. 5 No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant, 6 which will neither fatten them nor satisfy them. 7 Many a face will be in serenity on that day. 8 Well-pleased with their endeavour, 9 In an elevated garden, 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 A gushing fountain shall be there 12 and couches raised high, 13 And chosen goblets. 14 And cushions ranged! 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 and on the sky, how it is raised aloft, 18 and how the mountains were firmly fixed? 19 And the earth, how it is spread? 20 Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish. 21 You do not have full control over them. 22 As for those who turn their back and disbelieve, 23 Allah will chastise him with the most terrible chastisement. 24 Indeed only towards Us is their return 25 Then it will be for Us to call them to account. 26