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 Toiling, weary, 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 They will be given drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 which will neither fatten them nor satisfy them. 7 (Other) faces that Day will be joyful, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 In a high Garden 10 Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood, 11 There is a stream of running water in it; 12 raised couches, 13 and goblets laid out, 14 well-placed cushions, 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 Do they not look at the camels, how they are created? 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, 19 And the earth, how it was spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You are not a watcher over them; 22 Except whoever turns away and disbelieves – 23 Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment, 24 To Us they will all return. 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26