Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast, 2 Working [hard] and exhausted. 3 about to enter a glowing fire, 4 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring, 5 No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant, 6 Which neither give strength nor satisfy the hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 With their effort [they are] satisfied 9 They will live in an exalted garden 10 wherein they will not hear any vain talk. 11 Wherein is a gushing spring, 12 Within it are couches raised high 13 and goblets set forth 14 And cushions lined up 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 And the mountains: how they were fixed? 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 Admonish thou then; thou art but an admonisher. 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 But whosoever will turn back and disbelieve 23 God shall chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Lo! unto Us is their return 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26