Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Has the story reached thee of the overwhelming (Event)? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians, etc.). 2 labouring, weary, 3 roasting at a scorching Fire 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant, 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 Well-pleased with their endeavour, 9 They will be in a lofty Garden 10 wherein they shall hear no vain talk. 11 A gushing fountain shall be there 12 and raised couches, 13 And goblets ready placed! 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 And linen spread out. 16 What, do they not consider how the camel was created, 17 And the heaven, how it is raised? 18 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You are not a watcher over them; 22 However, he who turns away and disbelieves - 23 So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment. 24 To Us they will all return. 25 Then it will be for Us to call them to account. 26