Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Faces on that day humbled, 2 Labouring, wearied out, 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 that is fueled from a tremendously hot fountain, 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 Which shall neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 With their effort [they are] satisfied 9 In an elevated garden, 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 therein a running fountain, 12 raised couches, 13 And goblets ready placed! 14 cushions ranged, 15 and carpets outspread. 16 Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created? 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 So render good counsel, for you are simply required to counsel, 21 Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs. 22 However, those who turn away and disbelieve, 23 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 24 Indeed, to Us they shall return, 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26