Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity? 1 Many a face will be disgraced on that day. 2 Labouring (hard), weary,- 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 Neither nourishing nor banishing hunger. 7 (Other) faces, that Day, will be joyful, 8 With their effort [they are] satisfied 9 in a sublime Garden, 10 wherein they will not hear any vain talk. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 And within it are couches placed on high, 13 Goblets set, 14 well-placed cushions, 15 And linen spread out. 16 So do they not see the camel - how it has been created? 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 And the earth - how it has been spread out? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 However, as for him who turns away, being bent on denying the truth, 23 Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment, 24 Indeed only towards Us is their return 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26