Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Laboring, toiling, 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy, 8 well-pleased with [the fruit of] their striving, 9 They will live in an exalted garden 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 Therein shall be couches elevated! 13 And goblets set at hand 14 and cushions ranged, 15 and carpets spread out. 16 Will they not regard the camels, how they are created? 17 And at the sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder. 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 Surely to Us is their turning back, 25 Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account. 26