Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 Faces on that Day shall be downcast, 2 be toiling and worn-out; 3 The while they enter the Blazing Fire,- 4 Made to drink from a boiling spring. 5 For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant 6 Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 In a lofty garden, 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 Wherein is a gushing spring, 12 Within it are couches raised high 13 and goblets placed ready, 14 well-placed cushions, 15 and well spread carpets. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 And at the sky - how it is raised? 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted? 19 And at the Earth, how it is spread out? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 Thou art not over them a warden. 22 Other than him who turns his back and denies, 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 Indeed, to Us they shall return, 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26