Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Certainly the news of the calamity that will overwhelm has come to you! 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 labouring, toilworn, 3 They shall roast into the scalding Fire, 4 Drinking from a boiling spring, 5 no food for them except thorny plants 6 Which will neither fatten nor avail against hunger. 7 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy, 8 With their effort [they are] satisfied 9 In a high Garden 10 wherein they will not hear any vain talk. 11 In it there shall be a flowing spring, 12 Therein will be thrones raised high, 13 and goblets laid out, 14 and cushions ranged, 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? 18 and on the mountains, how they are firmly set up, 19 And at the Earth, how it is spread out? 20 Remind them; you are surely a reminder. 21 Thou art not at all a warder over them. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 In Our hands are their accounts. 26