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, toilworn, 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 Made to drink water from the boiling hot spring. 5 they shall have no food but thorns, 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 (Other) faces that Day will be joyful, 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In the high empyrean, 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 Countless springs will flow therein, 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 and prepared goblets, 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 And carpets spread around. 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 And at the heaven, how it is raised? 18 and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up, 19 And at the Earth, how it is spread out? 20 Therefore do thou give admonition, for thou art one to admonish. 21 thou canst not compel them [to believe]. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 Allah will chastise him with the most terrible chastisement. 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 And Ours their reckoning. 26