Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 labouring, weary, 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 which gives no strength and neither stills hunger. 7 (Whereas other) faces on that Day will be joyful, 8 Well-pleased with their endeavour, 9 In an elevated garden, 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 A gushing fountain shall be there 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 and goblets laid out, 14 well-placed cushions, 15 And carpets spread out. 16 Do they not look at the camels, how they are created? 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up, 19 and on the earth, how it is spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You do not have full control over them. 22 Other than him who turns his back and denies, 23 will be punished by God with the greatest punishment. 24 for behold, unto Us will be their return, 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26