Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast, 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 about to enter a glowing fire, 4 They will be given drink from a boiling spring. 5 They will have no food other than bitter and thorny fruit 6 Which neither give strength nor satisfy the hunger. 7 Many faces will be joyous on that day, 8 well pleased with their striving, 9 in a sublime Garden, 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 Countless springs will flow therein, 12 Wherein are couches raised 13 and prepared goblets, 14 and cushions arrayed in rows, 15 And rich carpets spread. 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?- 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 thou canst not compel them [to believe]. 22 But whoever will turn away (from the Truth), 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 Indeed, to Us they shall return, 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26