Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Hast thou received the story of the Enveloper? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring, 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 Many faces will be joyous on that day, 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In a high Garden 10 Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood, 11 In it is a flowing spring. 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 And cups put in place 14 and cushions arrayed 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Look they not at the camels, how they are created? 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 And the mountains: how they were fixed? 19 And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You are not a watcher over them; 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 God shall chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Surely to Us is their turning back, 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26