Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Travailing, worn. 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling. 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 unfattening, unappeasing hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 Glad for their effort past, 9 in a sublime Garden, 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 In it is a flowing spring. 12 [and] there will be thrones [of happiness] raised high, 13 And goblets set at hand 14 And cushions set in a row, 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 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 sky, how it is raised aloft? 18 And the mountains, how they were fixed; 19 And at the earth - how it is spread out? 20 So render good counsel, for you are simply required to counsel, 21 You are not charged to oversee them. 22 However, as for him who turns away, being bent on denying the truth, 23 Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment. 24 To Us is surely their returning; 25 Then indeed only upon Us is their reckoning. 26