Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Toiling, weary, 3 They will enter in the hot blazing Fire, 4 Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling. 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 which neither sustains, nor satisfy hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 and pleased with the result of their deeds in the past. 9 In the high empyrean, 10 Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood, 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 and couches raised high, 13 and goblets set at hand, 14 and cushions ranged, 15 and carpets spread out. 16 What, do they not reflect upon how the camel was created? 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 And the earth: how it was spread out? 20 So render good counsel, for you are simply required to counsel, 21 Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs. 22 However, he who turns away and disbelieves - 23 will be punished by God with the greatest punishment. 24 Indeed, to Us they shall return, 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26