Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 Labouring, wearied out, 3 They will enter in the hot blazing Fire, 4 Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling. 5 They will have no food other than bitter and thorny fruit 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 However, on that day the faces of other people will be happy. 8 With their effort [they are] satisfied 9 In a lofty garden, 10 Never hearing idle talk. 11 Therein will be a bubbling spring: 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 and goblets set at hand, 14 well-placed cushions, 15 And rich carpets (all) spread out. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?- 19 And the earth, how it was spread out? 20 So render good counsel, for you are simply required to counsel, 21 You are not a dictator over them. 22 However, as for him who turns away, being bent on denying the truth, 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 To Us is surely their returning; 25 Then it will be for Us to call them to account. 26