Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 On that day the faces of some people will be humbly cast down, 2 Labouring (hard), weary,- 3 Entering into burning fire, 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 They shall have no food except bitter dry thorns 6 Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 (Other) faces on that day shall be happy, 8 With their endeavour well pleased. 9 In the high empyrean, 10 wherein they shall hear no vain talk. 11 with a flowing spring, 12 [and] there will be thrones [of happiness] raised high, 13 and goblets laid out, 14 And cushions ranged 15 and rich carpets levelled out. 16 Then do they not look at the camels - how they are created? 17 And at the sky - how it is raised? 18 And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?- 19 And the earth: how it was spread out? 20 Remind them, for thou art but a remembrancer, 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 As for those who turn their back and disbelieve, 23 Allah will punish him with direst punishment. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 Then surely upon Us is the taking of their account. 26