Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 Some faces that Day shall be downcast with fear, 2 laboring, wornout, 3 They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire. 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 (Other) faces, that Day, will be joyful, 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 In a Garden on high, 10 hearing there no babble; 11 Therein will be a bubbling spring: 12 and couches raised high, 13 And cups put in place 14 well-placed cushions, 15 And linen spread out. 16 So do they not see the camel - how it has been created? 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 and how the mountains were firmly fixed? 19 And the earth, how it is spread? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You are not charged to oversee them. 22 But whoever turns back and disbelieves, 23 Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment, 24 Lo! unto Us is their return 25 Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account. 26