Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 On that day (many) faces will be downcast, 2 Labouring (hard), weary,- 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a fiercely boiling spring. 5 They will have no food other than bitter and thorny fruit 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 On that very Day some faces shall be radiant with joy, 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 in a sublime Garden, 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 Therein will be a bubbling spring: 12 raised couches, 13 And cups set at hand. 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 and carpets outspread. 16 Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created? 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 and how the mountains were firmly fixed? 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 (Muhammad), preach; you are only a preacher. 21 You are not a warden over them, 22 As for those who turn their back and disbelieve, 23 So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment. 24 Surely to Us is their return; 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26