Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Has not there come to you the news of the overwhelming calamity? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 Toiling, weary, 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit 6 Which neither give strength nor satisfy the hunger. 7 (Whereas other) faces on that Day will be joyful, 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 In the high empyrean, 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 Wherein is a gushing spring, 12 raised couches, 13 And goblets set at hand 14 Cushions arranged, 15 and carpets spread out. 16 What, do they not consider how the camel was created, 17 And the heaven, how it is raised? 18 And the mountains, how they are firmly fixed, 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer, 21 you are not their keeper. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 Truly, to Us is their return; 25 Then indeed only upon Us is their reckoning. 26