Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 Faces on that day humbled, 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 The while they enter the Blazing Fire,- 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 which will neither fatten them nor satisfy them. 7 On that very Day some faces shall be radiant with joy, 8 Well-pleased with their endeavour, 9 In the high empyrean, 10 Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech. 11 A gushing fountain shall be there 12 [and] there will be thrones [of happiness] raised high, 13 And cups set at hand. 14 And cushions ranged 15 And silken carpets spread. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 And the mountains: how they were fixed? 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 Thou art not one to manage (men's) affairs. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment. 24 for behold, unto Us will be their return, 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26