Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 laboring, wornout, 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 Drinking from a boiling spring, 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 Which will neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 Faces on that Day shall be delighted, 8 well pleased with the result of their striving, 9 In the high empyrean, 10 wherein they will not hear any vain talk. 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 therein uplifted couches 13 And cups put in place 14 and cushions arrayed in rows, 15 And carpets spread around. 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 how the mountains are set firm, 19 and on the earth, how it is spread out? 20 Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish. 21 you are not their keeper. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment. 24 Surely to Us is their turning back, 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26