Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Have you heard the story of the overwhelming event (the Day of Judgment)? 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 troubled and tired as a result of their deeds in the past. 3 They will enter in the hot blazing Fire, 4 Given water from the boiling spring to drink. 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 In the high empyrean, 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 There is a stream of running water in it; 12 Therein shall be couches elevated! 13 and goblets set forth 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 And carpets ready spread, 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 And the heaven – how it has been raised? 18 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, 19 and on the earth, how it is spread out? 20 So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder. 21 you are not their keeper. 22 Except whoever turns away and disbelieves – 23 God shall chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 To Us is surely their returning; 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26