Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 On that day (many) faces will be downcast, 2 Labouring (hard in the worldly life by worshipping others besides Allah), weary (in the Hereafter with humility and disgrace). 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant, 6 Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 Many faces will be joyous on that day, 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In a Garden on high, 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 There is a stream of running water in it; 12 and raised couches, 13 And chosen goblets. 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 and outspread carpets. 16 Will they not regard the camels, how they are created? 17 and on the sky, how it is raised aloft, 18 how the mountains were hoisted, 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 Except whoever turns away and disbelieves – 23 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Verily unto Us is their return. 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26