Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 Faces on that Day shall be downcast, 2 toiling [under burdens of sin,] worn out [by fear,] 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling. 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 which neither sustains, nor satisfy hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 In a high Garden. 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 Within it are couches raised high 13 and prepared goblets, 14 and cushions arrayed in rows, 15 and carpets spread out. 16 Look they not at the camels, how they are created? 17 And the heavens, how it was raised high; 18 how the mountains are set firm, 19 And at the Earth, how it is spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You are not at all a guardian over them. 22 As for those who turn their back and disbelieve, 23 Allah will chastise him with the most terrible chastisement. 24 Certainly, it is to Us that they will return. 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26