Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 Some faces will on that Day be downcast, 2 labouring, toilworn, 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 Given water from the boiling spring to drink. 5 They will have no food except bitter thorn, 6 which neither sustains, nor satisfy hunger. 7 [Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure. 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 They shall be in a Garden lofty: 10 where they will hear no idle talk. 11 Therein will be a flowing spring, 12 raised couches, 13 and prepared goblets, 14 and cushions arrayed in rows, 15 And carpets ready spread, 16 Will they not then consider the camels, how they are created? 17 And the heavens, how it was raised high; 18 And at the mountains, how they are rooted? 19 And the earth, how it is made a vast expanse? 20 Therefore advise; indeed you are a proclaimer of advice. (The Holy Prophet is a Remembrance from Allah.) 21 You do not have full control over them. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 will be punished by God with the greatest punishment. 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26