Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 Labouring, wearied out, 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 They will be given drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 well-pleased with their striving. 9 in a sublime Garden, 10 Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech. 11 Within it is a flowing spring. 12 raised couches, 13 and prepared goblets, 14 And cushions ranged 15 And rich carpets spread. 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 the earth, how it is made a vast expanse? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 However, those who turn away and disbelieve, 23 In which case he will be punished by God with the severest punishment. 24 To Us is surely their returning; 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26