Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 Faces on that day humbled, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 They will be given to drink from a boiling spring, 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 Which shall neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 In a high Garden 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 Therein is a fountain flowing, 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 and prepared goblets, 14 and cushions arrayed in rows, 15 And rich carpets spread. 16 Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created, 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 and how the mountains were firmly fixed? 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder. 21 thou art not charged to oversee them. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 Surely to Us is their turning back, 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26