Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
Allah - beginning with the name of - the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 labouring, weary, 3 (Yet) Going into the blazing fire. 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 (Other) faces, that Day, will be joyful, 8 well pleased with the result of their striving, 9 in a sublime Garden, 10 Wherein you shall not hear vain talk. 11 Therein will be a running spring, 12 Within it are couches raised high 13 and goblets set forth 14 And cushions lined up 15 and carpets spread out. 16 Do they not then ponder how the clouds were formed; 17 how the heavens are raised up high, 18 And at the mountains - how they are erected? 19 And the earth – how it has been spread out? 20 Remind them; you are surely a reminder. 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 But he who turns his back, and disbelieves, 23 Allah will chastise him with the greatest chastisement. 24 Surely to Us is their return; 25 Then indeed only upon Us is their reckoning. 26