Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful
HAS NEWS OF the Overpowering Event reached you? 1 Faces on that Day shall be downcast, 2 Labouring, striving hard. 3 roasting at a scorching fire, 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food shall be theirs save bitter thorn, 6 Which will neither nourish nor satisfy hunger. 7 In that day other faces will be calm, 8 with their striving well-pleased, 9 In a lofty Paradise. 10 hearing there no babble; 11 with a flowing spring, 12 [and] there will be thrones [of happiness] raised high, 13 and goblets laid out, 14 well-placed cushions, 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 heaven, how it is raised? 18 And at the Mountains, how they are fixed firm?- 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 a watcher over them; 22 But whoever turns back and denies the truth, 23 Allah will punish him with a mighty Punishment, 24 Verily, to Us will be their return; 25 Ours is surely then to reckon with them. 26