Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 [Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled, 2 Labouring (hard), weary,- 3 they shall burn in a Scorching Fire; 4 The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring, 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 Neither nourishing nor banishing hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In a lofty Paradise. 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 Therein will be a bubbling spring: 12 therein uplifted couches 13 And cups put in place 14 well-placed cushions, 15 and carpets outspread. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 And how the heaven was raised up, 18 and how the mountains were firmly fixed? 19 And the earth, how it is spread? 20 So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder. 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 But whoever turns back and disbelieves, 23 Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment, 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26