Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Hast thou received the story of the Enveloper? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians, etc.). 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 The while they enter the Blazing Fire,- 4 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring, 5 No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant, 6 Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 On that very Day some faces shall be radiant with joy, 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 In an elevated garden, 10 Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood, 11 In it is a flowing spring. 12 Wherein are couches raised 13 And goblets set at hand 14 And cushions lined up 15 and carpets spread out. 16 Will they not regard the camels, how they are created? 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 And at the mountains - how they are erected? 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 thou canst not compel them [to believe]. 22 Except whoever turns away and disbelieves – 23 So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment. 24 Verily unto Us is their return. 25 Then, surely, it is for Us to call them to account. 26