Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 Some faces that Day shall be downcast with fear, 2 laboring, wornout, 3 Going into the blazing fire. 4 The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring, 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 In the high empyrean, 10 where they will hear no idle talk, 11 Therein will be a flowing spring, 12 and couches raised high, 13 And goblets set at hand 14 well-placed cushions, 15 And carpets spread around. 16 So do they not see the camel - how it has been created? 17 And at the Sky, how it is raised high?- 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 And at the earth - how it is spread out? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 You are not a watcher over them; 22 However, as for him who turns away, being bent on denying the truth, 23 Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment. 24 Certainly, it is to Us that they will return. 25 And Ours their reckoning. 26