Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast, 2 labouring, weary, 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 that is fueled from a tremendously hot fountain, 5 They will have no food except bitter thorn, 6 which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 With their effort [they are] satisfied 9 In a lofty garden, 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 A gushing fountain shall be there 12 [and] there will be thrones [of happiness] raised high, 13 And goblets set at hand 14 and arranged cushions 15 And silken carpets spread. 16 So do they not see the camel – how it has been created? 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 how the earth was outstretched? 20 So, [O Prophet] exhort them: your task is only to exhort, 21 You are not charged to oversee them. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment. 24 Indeed, to Us is their return. 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26