Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 On that Day, there shall be downcast faces, 2 labouring, weary, 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 Given water from the boiling spring to drink. 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 Many a face will be in serenity on that day. 8 well pleased with their striving, 9 In a Garden on high, 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 raised couches, 13 and goblets laid out, 14 and arranged cushions 15 And silken carpets spread. 16 DO, THEN, they [who deny resurrection] never gaze at the clouds pregnant with water, [and observe] how they are created? 17 And how the heaven was raised up, 18 how the mountains were hoisted, 19 And at the earth, how it is spread out? 20 So remind them (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him)), you are only a one who reminds. 21 You are not at all a guardian over them. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 24 Lo! unto Us is their return 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26