Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 Faces on that day humbled, 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 they shall enter a burning Fire 4 Drinking from a boiling spring, 5 they shall have no food but thorns, 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 With their endeavour well pleased. 9 In a lofty garden, 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 In it there shall be a flowing spring, 12 Therein shall be couches elevated! 13 And goblets set at hand 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 and outspread carpets. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 And the mountains – how they have been established? 19 And at the Earth, how it is spread out? 20 (Muhammad), preach; you are only a preacher. 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 But whosoever will turn back and disbelieve 23 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 24 Surely to Us is their turning back, 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26