Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
Have you heard about the Overwhelming Event? 1 [Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled, 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 they shall enter a burning Fire 4 their drink shall be from a boiling spring. 5 No food for them save bitter thorn-fruit 6 Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 Many a face will be in serenity on that day. 8 Pleased with their striving,- 9 In a Garden on high, 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 Therein shall be a spring running! 12 and raised couches, 13 and goblets placed ready, 14 cushions ranged, 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 Sky, how it is raised high?- 18 And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?- 19 and how the earth is spread out? 20 (Muhammad), preach; you are only a preacher. 21 you are not their keeper. 22 But if any turn away and reject Allah,- 23 Allah will punish them with the greatest punishment. 24 Verily unto Us is their return. 25 and then it is for Us to call them to account. 26