Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Have you heard the story of the overwhelming event (the Day of Judgment)? 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 laboring, wornout, 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 and will be made to drink from a boiling spring, 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 which gives no strength and neither stills hunger. 7 Faces on that day jocund, 8 Well-pleased with their endeavour, 9 In the high empyrean, 10 where they will hear no idle talk, 11 with a flowing spring, 12 and couches raised high, 13 and goblets laid out, 14 and cushions ranged, 15 and carpets outspread. 16 Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created? 17 And the heaven, how it is reared aloft, 18 and how the mountains were firmly fixed? 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 over them a controller. 22 But whoever turns back and disbelieves, 23 In which case he will be punished by God with the severest punishment. 24 Truly, to Us is their return; 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26