Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 Faces on that Day shall be downcast, 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 their drink shall be from a boiling spring. 5 no food for them except thorny plants 6 Which neither give strength nor satisfy the hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 well pleased with their striving, 9 In a lofty Paradise. 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 therein a running fountain, 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 And cups put in place 14 and arranged cushions 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 And the heaven – how it has been raised? 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted? 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 Therefore remind, you are only a Reminder. 21 thou art not charged to oversee them. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 God shall chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Indeed only towards Us is their return 25 Then indeed only upon Us is their reckoning. 26