Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 Many a face will be disgraced on that day. 2 toiling [under burdens of sin,] worn out [by fear,] 3 The while they enter the Blazing Fire,- 4 They will be given drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 Which neither give strength nor satisfy the hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 Well-pleased with their endeavour, 9 They shall be in a Garden lofty: 10 Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood, 11 Wherein is a gushing spring, 12 raised couches, 13 and goblets set forth 14 and cushions arrayed 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created, 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 You are not a dictator over them. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 will be punished by God with the greatest punishment. 24 for behold, unto Us will be their return, 25 Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account. 26