Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Travailing, worn. 3 Entering into burning fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a fiercely boiling spring. 5 They will have no food except bitter thorn, 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 well-pleased with [the fruit of] their striving, 9 They will be in a lofty Garden 10 hearing there no babble; 11 Therein will be a flowing spring, 12 and couches raised high, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Look they not at the camels, how they are created? 17 And at the heaven, how it is raised? 18 And at the mountains, how firmly they are reared? 19 and on the earth, how it is spread out? 20 Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish. 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 But whoso is averse and disbelieveth, 23 God shall chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26