Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 On that day (many) faces will be downcast, 2 Labouring, wearied out, 3 Burning in the scorching fire, 4 Made to drink from a boiling spring. 5 no food for them but cactus thorn 6 unfattening, unappeasing hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 With their endeavour well pleased. 9 in a sublime garden, 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 In it is a flowing spring. 12 Wherein are couches raised 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 cushions ranged, 15 And linen spread out. 16 So do they not see the camel – how it has been created? 17 And at the heaven, how it is raised? 18 how the mountains were hoisted, 19 how the earth was outstretched? 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 However, those who turn away and disbelieve, 23 him will God cause to suffer the greatest suffering [in the life to come]: 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26