Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 (Some) faces on that day shall be downcast, 2 troubled and tired as a result of their deeds in the past. 3 They will enter in the hot blazing Fire, 4 their drink shall be from a boiling spring. 5 They shall have no food but of thorns, 6 which gives no strength and neither stills hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 With their endeavour well pleased. 9 In a high Garden. 10 Where they shall neither hear harmful speech nor falsehood, 11 therein a running fountain, 12 and couches raised high, 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 And cushions lined up 15 And carpets 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 heaven, how it is raised? 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted and fixed firm? 19 And how the earth was outstretched? 20 So remind, [O Muhammad]; you are only a reminder. 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 As for those who turn their back and disbelieve, 23 Then Allah will punish him with the greatest punishment. 24 Indeed only towards Us is their return 25 Then verily, for Us will be their reckoning. 26