Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of God, The Most Gracious, The Dispenser of Grace
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 Faces on that day humbled, 2 Labouring, wearied out, 3 about to enter a glowing fire, 4 and will be made to drink from a fiercely boiling spring. 5 They shall have no food but of thorns, 6 unfattening, unappeasing hunger. 7 [And] some faces will on that Day shine with bliss, 8 well-pleased with their striving. 9 In the high empyrean, 10 Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood, 11 A gushing fountain shall be there 12 Therein will be Thrones (of dignity), raised on high, 13 And goblets ready placed! 14 and cushions arrayed 15 And rich carpets spread. 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 And the sky: how it was raised high? 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 (Muhammad), preach; you are only a preacher. 21 Thou art not over them a warden. 22 However, as for him who turns away, being bent on denying the truth, 23 him will God cause to suffer the greatest suffering [in the life to come]: 24 Indeed, to Us they shall return, 25 and verily, It is for Us to call them to account. 26