Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 watered at a boiling fountain, 5 No food will there be for them but a poisonous thorny plant, 6 which gives no strength and neither stills hunger. 7 [And] some faces will on that Day shine with bliss, 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In a high Garden. 10 where they will hear no idle talk. 11 Within it is a flowing spring. 12 raised couches, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 cushions ranged, 15 And linen spread out. 16 Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created? 17 And at the sky - how it is raised? 18 And the mountains – how they have been established? 19 And at the earth - how it is 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 denies the truth, 23 God will punish them with the greatest torment. 24 Truly, to Us is their return; 25 Then indeed, upon Us is their account. 26