Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 The while they are given, to drink, of a boiling hot spring, 5 they shall have no food but thorns, 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 well-pleased with their striving. 9 in a garden sublime, 10 Wherein they will hear no unsuitable speech. 11 Therein is a fountain flowing, 12 Wherein are couches raised 13 Goblets set, 14 cushions ranged, 15 And rich carpets spread. 16 Will they not regard the camels, how they are created? 17 And at the heaven, how it is raised? 18 and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up, 19 how the earth was outstretched? 20 And so, [O Prophet,] exhort them; thy task is only to exhort: 21 You are not a watcher over them; 22 However, he who turns away and disbelieves - 23 God shall chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26