Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
Have you received the news of the Enveloper? 1 Some faces that Day shall be downcast with fear, 2 labouring, toilworn, 3 (Yet) Going into the blazing fire. 4 Drinking from a boiling spring, 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 that will neither nourish nor satisfy their hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 In a high Garden 10 where they will hear no idle talk, 11 Therein is a fountain flowing, 12 therein uplifted couches 13 And goblets ready placed! 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 and well spread carpets. 16 Do they not look at the camels, how they are created? 17 And the heaven, how it is raised? 18 And at the mountains, how firmly they are reared? 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder. 21 You are not charged to oversee them. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Him Allah shall torment with the greatest torment. 24 Indeed, to Us they shall return, 25 Then indeed, upon Us is their account. 26