Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 Faces on that day humbled, 2 Labouring, wearied out, 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring, 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 and pleased with the result of their deeds in the past. 9 In an elevated garden, 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 In it there shall be a flowing spring, 12 raised couches, 13 and goblets set at hand, 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created, 17 And the heavens, how it was raised high; 18 and how the mountains were firmly fixed? 19 And how the earth was outstretched? 20 Admonish thou then; thou art but an admonisher. 21 You are not over them a controller. 22 But whoever turns back and disbelieves, 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 Indeed only towards Us is their return 25 Then indeed only upon Us is their reckoning. 26