Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 labouring, weary, 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 their drink shall be from a boiling spring. 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 (Other) faces, that Day, will be joyful, 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 in a sublime garden, 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 A gushing fountain shall be there 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 and well spread carpets. 16 What, do they not consider how the camel was created, 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted and fixed 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 Thou art not over them a warden. 22 But whosoever will turn back and disbelieve 23 Him Allah shall torment with the greatest torment. 24 Certainly, it is to Us that they will return. 25 And Ours their reckoning. 26