Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 Faces on that Day shall be downcast, 2 laboring, wornout, 3 Entering into burning fire, 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 They will have no food except bitter thorn, 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 On that very Day some faces shall be radiant with joy, 8 With their endeavour well pleased. 9 in a Garden on high, 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 Wherein is a gushing spring, 12 therein uplifted couches 13 and prepared goblets, 14 And cushions set in rows, 15 And rich 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 the sky: how it was raised high? 18 how the mountains were hoisted, 19 And the earth, how it is spread? 20 So render good counsel, for you are simply required to counsel, 21 You are not over them a controller. 22 However, those who turn away and disbelieve, 23 Him Allah shall torment with the greatest torment. 24 Verily unto Us is their return. 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26