Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
Has there reached you the report of the Overwhelming [event]? 1 Many faces will be contrite on that day, 2 Working [hard] and exhausted. 3 they shall enter a burning Fire 4 Given to drink of a spring fiercely boiling. 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 Rejoicing over their efforts. 9 In a high Garden. 10 wherein thou wilt hear no empty talk. 11 Therein is a fountain flowing, 12 raised couches, 13 And cups set at hand. 14 Cushions arranged, 15 and carpets outspread. 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 at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?- 19 And at the earth, how it is outspread? 20 So render good counsel, for you are simply required to counsel, 21 and are not invested with the authority to compel them. 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment, 24 Surely to Us is their turning back, 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26