Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians, etc.). 2 Labouring, wearied out, 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 which gives no strength and neither stills hunger. 7 Some faces on that Day will be radiant, 8 well-pleased with their striving. 9 In an elevated garden, 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 with a flowing spring, 12 Therein shall be couches elevated! 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 and cushions arrayed 15 and carpets spread out. 16 Do they never reflect on the camels and how they were created, 17 And the heaven, how it is raised? 18 And at the mountains, how firmly they are reared? 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder. 21 You are not over them a controller. 22 Except whoever turns away and disbelieves – 23 God shall chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 To Us they will all return. 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26