Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Toiling, weary, 3 they shall burn in a Scorching Fire; 4 Given water from the boiling spring to drink. 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 which gives no strength and neither stills hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 well-pleased with their striving. 9 In the high empyrean, 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 therein a running fountain, 12 raised couches, 13 And chosen goblets. 14 and cushions arrayed 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Do they not look at the camels, how they are created? 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 And how the earth was outstretched? 20 (Muhammad), preach; you are only a preacher. 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment. 24 Surely to Us is their return; 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26