Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 Labouring, wearied out, 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a fiercely boiling spring. 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 Faces on that Day shall be delighted, 8 well pleased with their striving, 9 They will be in a lofty Garden 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 and raised couches, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 And cushions ranged! 15 And carpets spread around. 16 Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created? 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?- 19 And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse? 20 Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish. 21 thou canst not compel them [to believe]. 22 Other than him who turns his back and denies, 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 Surely to Us is their turning back, 25 Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account. 26