Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
Has there reached you the report 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 (hard in the worldly life by worshipping others besides Allah), weary (in the Hereafter with humility and disgrace). 3 Yet, going into the blazing fire. 4 Drinking from a boiling spring, 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 Faces on that Day shall be delighted, 8 well-pleased with [the fruit of] their striving, 9 In a high Garden 10 In which they will not hear any lewd speech. 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 therein uplifted couches 13 And chosen goblets. 14 And arranged carpets. 15 And carpets ready spread, 16 Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created, 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 You are not over them a controller. 22 But whoso is averse and disbelieveth, 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 To Us they will all return. 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26