Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Some faces that Day shall be downcast with fear, 2 toiling [under burdens of sin,] worn out [by fear,] 3 Entering into burning fire, 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 There is no food for them except thorns of fire. 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy, 8 With their endeavour well pleased. 9 In the high empyrean, 10 hearing there no babble; 11 Countless springs will flow therein, 12 Therein shall be couches elevated! 13 and goblets laid out, 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 And silken carpets spread. 16 Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created? 17 And how the heaven was raised up, 18 how the mountains are set firm, 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 You are not charged to oversee them. 22 Except whoever turns away and disbelieves – 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 for behold, unto Us will be their return, 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26