Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Have you heard the story of the overwhelming event (the Day of Judgment)? 1 Many a face will be disgraced on that day. 2 Labouring (hard), weary,- 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring, 5 They shall have no food but of thorns, 6 Neither nourishing nor banishing hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 In a lofty garden, 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 Countless springs will flow therein, 12 In which are high thrones. 13 and goblets placed ready, 14 and arranged cushions 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 Do they not look at the camels, how they are created? 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted and fixed firm? 19 And how the earth was outstretched? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 thou canst not compel them [to believe]. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Him Allah shall torment with the greatest torment. 24 Lo! unto Us is their return 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26