Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity? 1 [Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled, 2 Travailing, worn. 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring, 5 They shall have no food but of thorns, 6 which gives no strength and neither stills hunger. 7 (Whereas other) faces on that Day will be joyful, 8 Well-pleased because of their striving, 9 in a sublime Garden, 10 where they will hear no idle talk, 11 In it is a flowing spring. 12 [and] there will be thrones [of happiness] raised high, 13 and goblets set at hand, 14 And cushions ranged 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created, 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 And the mountains: how they were fixed? 19 And the earth: how it was spread out? 20 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer, 21 You are not a dictator over them. 22 Except whoever turns away and disbelieves – 23 Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment, 24 To Us is surely their returning; 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26