Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 Working [hard] and exhausted. 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 Made to drink from a boiling spring. 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 Neither nourishing nor banishing hunger. 7 However, on that day the faces of other people will be happy. 8 With their endeavour well pleased. 9 They shall be in a Garden lofty: 10 In which they will not hear any lewd speech. 11 Therein is a fountain flowing, 12 and raised couches, 13 Goblets set, 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 And linen spread out. 16 Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created, 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted? 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 So remind them (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)), you are only a one who reminds. 21 You are not over them a controller. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 him will God cause to suffer the greatest suffering [in the life to come]: 24 Indeed only towards Us is their return 25 Then indeed only upon Us is their reckoning. 26