Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Has there come to you the narration of the overwhelming (i.e. the Day of Resurrection); 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated, 2 Travailing, worn. 3 about to enter a glowing fire, 4 Made to drink water from the boiling hot spring. 5 They will have no food other than bitter and thorny fruit 6 Neither nourishing nor banishing hunger. 7 However, on that day the faces of other people will be happy. 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In the high empyrean, 10 where they will hear no idle talk, 11 Within it is a flowing spring. 12 Therein are thrones raised high, 13 And goblets ready placed! 14 and cushions arrayed in rows, 15 and well spread carpets. 16 DO, THEN, they [who deny resurrection] never gaze at the clouds pregnant with water, [and observe] how they are created? 17 And at the heaven, how it is raised? 18 And the mountains: how they were fixed? 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 you are not their keeper. 22 However, as for him who turns away, being bent on denying the truth, 23 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account. 26