Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Has the news of the overwhelming event reached you? 1 On that day (many) faces will be downcast, 2 Labouring (hard), weary,- 3 Scorched by burning fire, 4 Given water from the boiling spring to drink. 5 They will have no food other than bitter and thorny fruit 6 Which shall neither nourish nor avail against hunger. 7 However, on that day the faces of other people will be happy. 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 In a lofty garden, 10 Where they shall hear no (word) of vanity: 11 In it there shall be a flowing spring, 12 therein uplifted couches 13 And cups set at hand. 14 and cushions arrayed 15 and carpets outspread. 16 Have they not looked at how the camel is created, 17 how heaven was lifted up, 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted? 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 their keeper. 22 Other than him who turns his back and denies, 23 So Allah will mete out to him the greatest punishment. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26