Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 On that day (many) faces will be downcast, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire. 4 and will be made to drink from a boiling spring, 5 No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant, 6 which neither sustains, nor satisfy hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In an elevated garden, 10 Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood, 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 In which are high thrones. 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 cushions ranged, 15 And silken carpets spread. 16 Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created? 17 And at the heaven, how it is raised? 18 And at the mountains - how they are erected? 19 And at the Earth, how it is spread out? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You do not have full control over them. 22 But whoever turns back and disbelieves, 23 Him Allah shall torment with the greatest torment. 24 Truly, to Us is their return; 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26